Romain Rolland
Romain Rolland
Romain Rollandwas a French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and mystic who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915 "as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the sympathy and love of truth with which he has described different types of human beings"...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth29 January 1866
CountryFrance
able
Mozart was able to do what he wished in music and he never wished to so what was beyond him.
soul action reason
When nothing hampers action, the soul has fewer reasons for action.
country war hate
Love of my country does not demand that I shall hate and slay those noble and faithful souls who also love theirs.
spiritual men order
The true Vedantic spirit does not start out with a system of preconceived ideas. It possesses absolute liberty and unrivalled courage among religions with regard to the facts to be observed and the diverse hypotheses it has laid down for their coordination. Never having been hampered by a priestly order, each man has been entirely free to search wherever he pleased for the spiritual explanation of the spectacle of the universe.
history causes needs
History furnishes to politics all the arguments that it needs, for the chosen cause.
It is not peace that I seek, but life.
struggle years giving
I would rather have this life of combat than the moral calm and mournful stupor of these last years. God give me struggle, enemies, howling crowds, all the combot of which I am capable.
people theatre able
There is only one necessary condition for the emergence of a new theatre, that the stage and auditorium should be open to the masses, should be able to contain a people and the actions of a people.
The friend who understands you, creates you.
artist storm compass
The artist is the compass which, through the raging of the storm, points steadily to the north.
responsibility men luxury
All these young millionaires were anarchists, of course: when a man possesses everything it is the supreme luxury for him to deny society: for in that way he can evade his responsibilities
men light firsts
If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself.
men ideas progress
Each man must learn his own ideal and try to accomplish it: that is a surer way of progress than to take the ideas of another.
passion miracle genius
Passion is like genius: a miracle.