Translation of "Lebenslüge" in English

It is a grand delusion that we must finally step away from.

It's a business lie. It's different from a life lie.

How many life lies are permitted in Bangkok?

This is the grand delusion of the “United States of Europe”.

He helped Germany free itself from its delusion.

This is the grand delusion of the "United States of Europe".

So: let us (among other things) also give up our technological life lie.

It must not become our lives’ lie!“

The Gospel delivers from the delusion of the ability to renew oneself.

Martyrdom is one of Man's worst enemies because it is a life-lie. No martyrdom actually exists.

In contrast to this, the critics are almost as one in their opinion of Sebastian Schwarz; that Erhard has slipped too much into a caricature and that he is reduced to a “fattened-up spoiled brat”, a “rich kid”, a “chubby teddy-bear” or a “failed mummy’s boy”, while on the other hand, exactly because of this, his “delusion”, or rather his “drama as a hanger-on”, comes across[19.]

He devoted his own existence to covering up the lie of his family, took on no profession, started no family, but dedicated himself to preserving the reputation of his father.

In contrast to this, the critics are almost as one in their opinion of Sebastian Schwarz; that Erhard has slipped too much into a caricature and that he is reduced to a "fattened-up spoiled brat", a "rich kid", a "chubby teddy-bear" or a "failed mummy's boy", while on the other hand, exactly because of this, his "delusion", or rather his "drama as a hanger-on", comes across[19.]

The Gospel of the justification of the godless delivers from the delusion that people have to be products of themselves.

I also believe that it was always very important for them to put their own views, attitudes, opinions last, so as to never leave our mother alone with her lifelong lie.

At the end of November, the "German Bank Association" dedicated an entire meeting to the changes in public opinion on the fundamental lie of the "social market economy".

Revenge becomes such that the ethical religious life, while it distances itself from the everyday things, from direct practical life, that this ethical religious life actually turns surreptitiously — without one noticing it as it is masked — into an inner delusion.

At the centre of the third novel, 'Eine Frau aus Amerika' (2003; Engl: A Woman from America), stands an ageing German-American couple who, during a university cultural exchange programme, must come to terms with the lifelong lies of their decades-long relationship.

Whoever still spreads the fundamental lie of the "calculable residual risk" is either naive, stupid or criminal.

People who oppose this life long illusion are persecuted again and again in the course of history, because they don't want to betray life and nature.

Now he is endlessly relieved, sees his life stretching into the future – and learns only at the end that he has not been told the truth (theme: life as a living lie).

In accordance with the theory of the triad, Schönberg also casts aside the second false premise of “music theory”: the distinction between consonance and dissonance, which we might be inclined to call the grand delusion of harmonic theory.

That strange relationship which exists between the working wages and the nature of goods, this relationship depends on a white lie.