Quotes by Luigi Pirandello

Luigi Pirandello

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.

May

Order

Science

All I’m saying is that you should show some respect for what other people see with their eyes and feel with their fingers, even though it be the exact opposite.

Opposites

People

Respect

Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.

Gentleman

Heroic

Time

As soon as one is born, one starts dying.

Born

Death

Dying

Blind yourself, for I am blind.

Blind

Buffoons, buffoons! One can play any tune on them!

Buffoons

Play

Tunes

Do you believe you can know yourselves if you don’t somehow con- struct yourselves? Or that I can know you if I don’t construct you in my way? And can you know me if I don’t construct you in my way? We can know only what we succeed in giving form to.

Believe

Giving

Identity

Each of us when he appears before his fellows is clothed in a certain dignity. But every man knows what unconfessable things pass within the secrecy of his own heart.

Guilt

Heart

Men

Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart.

Goes On

Heart

Men

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Knowing

Life

Men

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Able

Acceptance

Achieve

Alive

Ambition

Animal

Approval

Arms

Art

Beast

Beautiful

Believe

Blame

Blind

Born

Buffoons

Character

Children

Concepts

Death

Different

Doe

Done

Dream

Dying

Easier

Environmental

Example

Eye

Faces

Facts

Father

Feels

Fixed

Gentleman

Giving

Goes On

Guilt

Hair

Hands

Happiness

Harm

Hate

Heart

Hero

Heroic

History

House

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Quotes by Luigi Pirandello

Luigi Pirandello

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.

All I’m saying is that you should show some respect for what other people see with their eyes and feel with their fingers, even though it be the exact opposite.

Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.

As soon as one is born, one starts dying.

Blind yourself, for I am blind.

Buffoons, buffoons! One can play any tune on them!

Do you believe you can know yourselves if you don’t somehow con- struct yourselves? Or that I can know you if I don’t construct you in my way? And can you know me if I don’t construct you in my way? We can know only what we succeed in giving form to.

Each of us when he appears before his fellows is clothed in a certain dignity. But every man knows what unconfessable things pass within the secrecy of his own heart.

Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart.

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

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