Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out.
Luigi PirandelloRead
Personally, I don't give a rap for documents; for the truth in my eyes is not in them but in the mind.
Interpretation
What this quote means
True understanding comes from within and not from external documents.
In this quote, Luigi Pirandello emphasizes the idea that the essence of truth resides in individual perception and understanding, rather than in written documents or formalities. He suggests that human consciousness and thought are more significant in discerning truth than any external evidence may be.
Themes
TruthMindPerceptionUnderstandingDocuments
In practice
Example use cases
Use this quote in a discussion about the nature of truth in philosophy classes.
More from Luigi Pirandello
All quotes βWe're like so many puppets hung on the wall, waiting for someone to come and move us or make us talk.
Luigi PirandelloRead
Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
Luigi PirandelloRead
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.
Luigi PirandelloRead
Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!
Luigi PirandelloRead
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.
Luigi PirandelloRead
Similar quotes
The idea of God grew side by side with the idea of materialism.
Swami VivekanandaRead
You can truly grieve for every officer who's been lost in the line of duty in this country, and still be troubled by cases of police overreach.
Jon StewartRead
Sometimes I got my majors mixed up. A number of my fellow religious-studies students - muddled agnostics who didn't know which way was up, who were in the thrall of reason, that fool's gold for the bright - reminded me of the three-toed sloth; and the three-toed sloth, such a beautiful example of the miracle of life, reminded me of God.
Yann MartelRead
He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.
VoltaireRead
When you and I hurt deeply, what we really need is not an explanation from God but a revelation of God. We need to see how great God is; we need to recover our lost perspective on life. Things get out of proportion when we are suffering, and it takes a vision of something bigger than ourselves to get life's dimensions adjusted again
Warren W. WiersbeRead
Hope, insofar as it is hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it proceeds from and what is placed under the sign of the Cross and death.
Paul RicoeurRead