Theodor W. Adorno Quotes

The exquisite truth is to believe in something that maybe you know is a fiction, but you believe in it willingly.

I think truth is weirder than fiction.

Rarely has reality needed so much to be imagined.

Truth is truth, whether labeled 'science' or 'religion.'

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.

The truth is always less interesting than the fiction.

Look! Don't be deceived by appearances - men and things are not what they seem. All who are not on the rock are in the sea!

It is faith that moves mountains, because it gives the illusion that mountains move …. Illusion is perhaps the only reality in life.

The dead see what they believe they will see. So do the living. That is the secret.

Reality is perspective. All you have to do is Believe.

Our greatest illusion is disillusion. We imagine that we are disillusioned with life, when the truth is that we have not even begun to live.

I always mistrust everything I see, which an image shows me, because I imagine what is beyond it. And what is beyond an image cannot be known.

The truth is rarely as dreadful or as terrifying as what one imagines.

Why are you messing with the fantasy? We know about the reality. Don't ruin the fantasy, OK?

Truth is a matter of the imagination.

Just because it's a dream doesn't mean it's a lie.

We can't believe what we believe to be untrue, and we can't love what we believe to be unreal.

The truth is still the truth whether or not you believe it. Can we say the same about lies? No, lies only exist because we believe them. If we don't believe in lies, they simply disappear.

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.

Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.

The theater itself is a lie. Its deaths are mere special effects. Its tales never happened. Even the histories are distorted for dramatic effect. The theater is unnatural, a place of imagination. But the theater tells the audience something true: that the world requires judgments.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.

Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.