„She mediated, by turns, on broken promises and broken arches, phaetons and false hangings, Tilneys and trap-doors.“

— Jane Austen

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„… how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.“
— William Faulkner
„"You know that in all tombs there is always a false door?"Renisenb stared. "Yes, of course.""Well, people are like that too. They create a false door - to deceive. If they are conscious of weakness, of inefficiency, they make an imposing door of self-assertion, of bluster, of overwhelming authority - and, after a time, they get to believe in it themselves. They think, and everybody thinks, that they are like that. But behind that door, Renisenb, is a bare rock … And so when reality comes and touches them with the feather of truth - their true self reasserts itself."“
— Agatha Christie
„The error in positivism is that it takes as its standard of truth the contingently given division of labor, that between the science and social praxis as well as that within science itself, and allows no theory that could reveal the division of labor to be itself derivative and mediated and thus strip it of its false authority.“
— Theodor W. Adorno