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Luigi Pirandello
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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.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
