Sentence examples for a noble lie from inspiring English sources
This was a noble lie and, like all noble lies, backfired.
One answer might be the "Smoot-Hawley caused the Depression" thing; this isn't true at all, but it might be serving the purpose of a noble lie.
He told me that he had been talking about this subject with a colleague, and that they'd found themselves calling brain death a "noble lie".
But the rulers control mass culture in the ideal city, and they advance a "noble lie" to convince citizens of their unequal standing and deep tie to the city (414b-415d).
To be fair, it's what Plato called a gennaios pseudos, a noble lie.
A sensationalist and scruple-free press seems eager to collude in their "noble lie": that a Middle Eastern militia, thriving on the utter ineptitude of its local adversaries, poses an "existential risk" to an island fortress that saw off Napoleon and Hitler.
Sometimes he modifies them, to a greater or lesser extent, while other times he combines them this is the case, for instance, of the Noble Lie (Republic 414b 415d), which is a combination of the Cadmeian myth of autochthony and the Hesiodic myth of ages.
What about the noble lie, or the altruistic lie?
This also brings in Plato's concept of the noble lie.
Plato was not averse to providing new myths to perform this same social function as is seen in his conception of the "noble lie," or the invention of myths to promote morality and order, in the Republic.
