Luigi Pirandello
It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.Collection: Hero
The secret of living is to find a pivot, the pivot of a concept on which you can make your stand.Collection: Life
We ride through life on the beast within us. Beat the animal, but you can't make it think.Collection: Animal
None of us can estimate what we do when we do it from instinct.Collection: Instinct
One cannot choose what he writes - one can only choose to face it.Collection: Writing
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.Collection: Science
The facts are to blame, my friend. We are all imprisoned by facts: I was born, I exist.Collection: Facts
If you shut yourself up disdainfully in your ivory tower and insist that you have your own conscience and are satisfied with its approval, it is because you know that everybody is criticizing you, condemning you, or laughing at you.Collection: Ivory Tower
THE FATHER: But don't you see that the whole trouble lies here? In words, words. Each one of us has within him a whole world of things, each man of us his own special world. And how can we ever come to an understanding if I put in the words I utter the sense and value of things as I see them; while you who listen to me must inevitably translate them according to the conception of things each one of you has within himself. We think we understand each other, but we never really do.Collection: Father
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.Collection: Heart
Personally, I don't give a rap for documents; for the truth in my eyes is not in them but in the mind.Collection: Truth
The more arms and legs [children] we have, the richer we are.Collection: Children
I am an "unrealized" character, dramatically speaking.Collection: Character