Romain RollandYou 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 fan… ▶372HumanityThought
Romain RollandDiscussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek the truth, but already to possess it.362ReadingTruth
Romain RollandIt is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails. ✨ Romain Rolland (1911). Jean-Christophe364Sadness
Romain RollandThousands of animals (now billions) are butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. It cries vengeance upon all the human race.376Humanity
Romain RollandThe greatest book is not the one whose message engraves itself on the brain, as a telegraphic message engraves itself on the ticker-tape, but the one whose vital impact opens up o… ▶377ReadingThought
Romain RollandAny man who is really a man must learn to be alone in the midst of others, to think alone for others, and, if necessary, against others.378Thought
Romain RollandThe friend who understands you, creates you.324Truth
Romain RollandI know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries. ✨ The Anchor Book of French quotations, with English Translations. Book by Norbert Guterman, 1963.379Reading
Romain RollandEvery race, every art has its hypocrisy. The world is fed with a little truth and many lies. ✨ John Christopher: Storm and Stress.358Truth
Romain RollandThe 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. ✨ Life of Ramakrishna. Book … ▶338HumanityLifeReading
Romain RollandA hero is a man who does what he can. ✨ Romain Rolland (1914). John Christopher: Storm and Stress262Humanity
Romain RollandHistory furnishes to politics all the arguments that it needs, for the chosen cause.318Politics
Romain RollandLet us return to our eagle's nest in the Himalayas. It is waiting for us, for it is ours, eaglets of Europe, we need not renounce any part of our real nature...whence we formerly … ▶308LifeReading
Romain RollandThe 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 b… ▶308LifeReadingThought
Romain RollandTo a man whose mind is free there is something even more intolerable in the sufferings of animals than in the sufferings of man. For with the latter it is at least admitted that s… ▶289Thought
Romain RollandTake possession of the air, submit the elements, penetrate the last redoubts of nature, make space retreat, make death retreat.278Death
Romain RollandAll 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 respons… ▶223Humanity
Romain RollandYou 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 do… ▶289Life
Romain RollandBe reverent before the dawning day. Do not think of what will be in a year, or in ten years. Think of to-day. ✨ Romain Rolland (1914). John Christopher: Storm and Stress235Thought
Romain RollandIf there is one place on the face of 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. 226Life
Romain RollandThere are some dead who are more alive than the living. ✨ Romain Rolland (1913). Romain Rolland's Jean-Christophe194DeathLife
Romain RollandI find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so. ✨ Inter arma Caritas, Journal de Genève, October 30, 1914.151Sadness
Romain RollandOne makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved. ✨ On Relationships: A Book for Teenagers. Book by Kimberly Kirberger, 1999.173LifeLoveReading
Romain RollandThe more a man lives, the more a man creates, the more a man loves and loses those whom he loves, the more does he escape from death. With every new blow that we have to bear, wit… ▶206DeathLove
Romain RollandTo understand everything is to hate nothing. ✨ Romain Rolland (1914). Jean-Christophe: Journey's End141Life
Romain RollandEach 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.153Thought
Romain RollandThe theatre, like the fresco, is art fitted to its place. And therefore it is above all else the human art, the living art. ✨ Romain Rolland (1962). John Christopher: Journe… ▶164HumanityLife
Romain RollandIt is not peace that I seek, but life. ✨ Romain Rolland (1928). Jean-Christophe: Journey's end219Life
Romain RollandEverything is music for the born musician. ✨ Romain Rolland (1910). John Christopher: Dawn and Morning: By Romain Rolland; Tr. by Gilbert Cannan133Time
Romain RollandIf 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.… ▶2010LifeReading
