Sentences with phrase «noble lie»
(Peter sent me this link in an admirable act of shameless self - promotion, and the only noble lie he'll admit to is that the handsome picture of him isn't so recent.)
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Clever obfuscation, clever statistics, maybe noble lying?
He does not go so far as to say that religion is a noble lie, but he is prepared to acknowledge that it is a useful lie.
During one of the more infamous moments in Plato's Republic, Socrates suggests that the ideal city needs a founding myth — what he calls «a noble lie» — to ensure its success.
Plato called this a Noble Lie, so noble in fact that those who did not practice it would be executed.
Sometimes the noble lie, a bit of forgery, is it means getting rid of that damned flux..»
look what also happened when maggie thatcher went big with her noble lying about co2.
he was also a strong proponent of the noble lie or were you unaware of his NuCuLaR WiNtEr horror tales?
As Pat Frank notes, there is NO FALSIFIABLE THEORY of CLIMATE... though a hot spot in the troposphere was predicted, though positive feedback in sync with CO2 increasing emissions was predicted, these are conveniently forgotten or homogenized because the dogma trumps observation, it is the «noble lie» necessary in cli - sci for «noble ends.»