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
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.
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.