Luigi Pirandello Quotes

There is a reason for everything.

When something happens, we always say it happens for a reason.

Reason? That dreary shed, that hutch for grubby schoolboys.

The facts are on our side.

Rhetoric is cheap, evidence comes more dearly.

I try to give'em a reason, you see. It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason.

There are occasions and causes, why and wherefore in all things.

There's always a reason for everything.

No acts are random or wasted.

Why not? That's a good reason for almost anything - a bit used perhaps, but still quite serviceable.

Truth is used to vitalize a statement rather than devitalize it. Truth implies more than a simple statement of fact. "I don't have any whiskey," may be a fact but it is not a truth.

If facts weren't funny, or scary, or couldn't make you rich, the heck with them.

There is nothing without reason.

Facts are counterrevolutionary.

A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.

I don't believe things happen in vain. I believe they happen for a reason.

A fact is like a sack - it won't stand up if it's empty. To make it stand up, first you have to put in it all the reasons and feelings that caused it in the first place.

Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.

People need meanings to everything. People want you to intellectualize every choice you make.

Truth is in things, and not in words.

Convictions do not imply reasons.

I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.

Happily I had very early learned the fallacy of building much on logic and verbal argument. Single sets of truths I knew to be as little conclusive in theology as in physics; and, in one as in the other, no theory to be worth anything, however plausibly backed up with Scripture texts or facts, which was not gathered bona fide from the analysis of all the attainable phenomena, and verified wherever possible by experiment.

I'm a pretty strong believer that everything happens for a reason.

Whenever I write something, I always want to make sure that what I write is defensible.