Life-Preserving Fictions

By hubs | Published: August 9, 2006

Life-Preserving Fiction is a term that describes what most of us must believe to face each day. Each person has his or her own private life-preserving fictions. Friedrich Nietzsche claimed that we recognize these untruths as a condition of life; that the falsest beliefs are often the most indispensable to us.

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