Quotes by Romain Rolland

“If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself.”

“Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek the truth, but already to possess it.”

“But perhaps there are in us forces other than mind and heart, other even than the senses - mysterious forces which take hold of us in the moments when the others are asleep; and perhaps it was such...”

“Islands of memory begin to rise above the river of his life. At first they are little uncharted islands, rocks just peeping above the surface of the waters. Round about them and behind in the twili...”

“The 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 other viewpoints, a...”

“Everything is music for the born musician.”

“No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books, either to discover or to control himself.”

“One makes mistakes that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved. ”

“A hero is a man who does what he can.”

“It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.”

“If 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.”

“One makes mistakes that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.”

“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 h...”

“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.”

“I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.”

“Are you descendants of Goethe or of Attila the Hun?”

“What I especially love in Lefebvre is this intimate alliance — which for me makes the true man — of pessimism of the intelligence, which penetrates every illusion, and optimism of the will.”

“In politics, he has always been a republican with advanced Socialist sympathies, and internationalist at heart, and, as they said in the eighteenth century, a citizen of the world. He has always fo...”

“One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.”

“Religious faith in the case of Hindus has never been allowed to run counter to scientific laws; moreover the former is never made a condition for the knowledge they teach, but they are always scrup...”