Luigi Pirandello
( - )
Italian playwright.
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Science Quotes by Luigi Pirandello (2 quotes)
A fact is like a sack which won’t stand up if it’s empty. In order that it may stand up, one has to put into it the reason and sentiment which caused it to exist.
— Luigi Pirandello
Character, The Father, in play Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921), Act 1. Collected in John Gassner and Burns Mantle, A Treasury of the Theatre (1935), Vol. 2, 507.
Refusing to have an opinion is a way of having one, isn’t it?
— Luigi Pirandello
From the original Italian, “E non le sembra già questa un’opinione?” in Ciascuno a Suo Modo (1925), 4. English translation in 17 Plays: Sophocles to Baraka (1976), 596.
Quotes by others about Luigi Pirandello (1)
A sick man talks obsessively about his illness; a healthy man never talks about his health; for as Pirandello points out, we take happiness for granted, and only begin to question life when we are unhappy.
In Introduction to the New Existentialism (1966), 15.