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
our-world europe soul
The greatest human ideal is the great cause of bringing together the thoughts of Europe and Asia; the great soul of India will topple our world.
hero silly want
You want to be a hero. That is why you do such silly things.
dream people theatre
Theatre supposes lives that are poor and agitated, a people searching in dreams for a refuge from thought. If we were happier and freer we should not feel hungry for theatre.... A people that is happy and free has need of festivities more than of theatres; it will always see in itself the finest spectacle.
virtue foolish theory
Leave your theories. All theories, you see, even those of virtue, are bad, foolish, mischievous.
funny money men
I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.
war conflict praise
I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.
space air elements
Take possession of the air, submit the elements, penetrate the last redoubts of nature, make space retreat, make death retreat.
death alive
There are some dead who are more alive than the living.
hate
To understand everything is to hate nothing.
art lying men
Every man, every art, has its hypocrisy. The world is fed with little and many lies.
dream home men
If there is one place on the face of the earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.For more than 30 centuries, the tree of vision, with all its thousand branches and their millions of twigs, has sprung from this torrid land, the burning womb of the Gods. It renews itself tirelessly showing no signs of decay.
art fighting people
You desire a popular art? Begin by having a "people" whose minds are liberated, a people not crushed by misery and ceaseless toil, not brutalized by every superstition and every fanaticism, a people of itself, and victor in the fight that is being waged today.
impossible claims discussion
Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek the truth, but already to possess it.
love life mistake
One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.