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.
virtue foolish theory
Leave your theories. All theories, you see, even those of virtue, are bad, foolish, mischievous.
hero silly want
You want to be a hero. That is why you do such silly things.
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
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.
history causes needs
History furnishes to politics all the arguments that it needs, for the chosen cause.
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.
soul action reason
When nothing hampers action, the soul has fewer reasons for action.
able
Mozart was able to do what he wished in music and he never wished to so what was beyond him.
cemetery carrie deep-down
Everyone, deep down within, carries a small cemetery of those he has loved.
funny money men
I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.
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.
silly hero men
You are a vain fellow. You want to be a hero. That is why you do such silly things. A hero!... I don't quite know what that is: but, you see, I imagine that a hero is a man who does what he can. The others do not do it.