Theodor Adorno Quotes on Truth
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'A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.'
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'A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.'
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'Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.'
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'He who says he is happy lies, and in invoking happiness, sins against it. He alone keeps faith who says: I was happy. The only relation of consciousness to happiness is gratitude: in which lies its incomparable dignity.'
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'The overbearing matter-of-factness which sacrifices the subject to the ascertainment of the truth, rejects at once truth and objectivity.'
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'The whole is the false.'
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'Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.'
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'Without hope, the idea of truth would be scarcely even thinkable, and it is the cardinal untruth, having recognized existence to be bad, to present it as truth simply because it has been recognized.'