Free Essays on Lying to Get Inspired & Learn by Example

South Indian poet Thiruvalluvar, and Adi Shankara, one of India’s great philosophers, have given mankind certain guidelines on lying. If telling a lie brings good to fellow human beings, for example, if a lie saves an innocent man from going to the gallows, according to them, lying is good. In fact, Thiruvlluvar allows someone to lie through his humble argument that even untruth is equivalent to truth, provided it is capable of producing unblemished good to the human kind. Shakespeare also justifies telling lies sometimes. According to the great English playwright, if someone lies and no harm ensues Continue reading...

“Out of Africa,” by Isak Dinesen, is a grand, sweeping, epic tale of one woman’s fully coming of age in a land that, by rights, might have felt foreign to her, but into which she fits, as she says in her own words, “Here I am, where I ought to be.”(Dinesen 4). The book is autobiographical, but she has left out of it many aspects that one might have expected her to tell, such the details of her love affairs with the Baron Bror Blixen (to whom she was married) and with Denys Finch-Hatton, and focused instead Continue reading...

The more I considered this question the more difficult it became to zero in on a definitive and distinct answer. Actually, it became difficult to focus my thinking on the question itself. In our current political climate I find it nearly impossible to comprehend the previous hours’ worth of breaking news before the next story unravels, leaving my mind clouded, discouraged, and somewhat incapable of finding the emotional motivation to give a damn anymore.

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