Ugo Betti Quotes

If emptiness is empty, how can something be borne or awaken from it?

The past cannot remember the past. The future can't generate the future. The cutting edge of the instant right here and now is always nothing less than the totality of everything there is.

Time is the element that controls the consciousness, the very being of the people.

Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.

I want to know why the universe exists, why there is something greater than nothing.

Every moment is an experience.

Today is a part of eternity.

I also believe that when one dies, one may wake up to the reality that proves that time does not exist.

At any given moment, I open my eyes and exist.

Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing.

Being is born of not being.

Query: How does the never to be differ from what never was?

It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.

If the future and the past really exist, where are they?

...this moment... is the only physical reality you have.

All objects exist in a moment of time.

Life is available only in the present moment.

You are before being and not being, awake and dream take place in time. You have no time.

Both life and death manifest in every moment of existence. Our human body appears and disappears moment by moment, without cease, and this ceaseless arising and passing away is what we experience as time and being. They are not separate. They are one thing, and in even a fraction of a second, we have the opportunity to choose, and to turn the course of our action either toward the attainment of truth or away from it. Each instant is utterly critical to the whole world.

Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?

In a strange room you must empty yourself for sleep. And before you are emptied for sleep, what are you. And when you are emptied for sleep, what are you. And when you are emptied for sleep you are not. And when you are filled with sleep, you never were. I don't know what I am. I don't know if I am or not.

No one thought up being. He who thinks he has, step forward.

Nothingness is the basis of everything.

Things don't exist until they exist.