Romain Rolland Quotes

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• Any man who is really a man must learn to be alone in the midst of others, to think alone for others, and, if necessary,…
• There is only one heroism in the world: to see the world as it is, and to love it.
• 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…
• Let 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…
• Take possession of the air, submit the elements, penetrate the last redoubts of nature, make space retreat, make death retreat.
• 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…
• If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• It is not peace that I seek, but life.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• Thousands of animals (now billions) are butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. It cries vengeance upon all the human race.
• Every man, every art, has its hypocrisy. The world is fed with little and many lies.
• 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…
• The theatre, like the fresco, is art fitted to its place. And therefore it is above all else the human art, the living art.
• The friend who understands you, creates you.
• Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow.

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