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. Romain Rolland More Quotes by Romain Rolland More Quotes From Romain Rolland There is only one heroism in the world: to see the world as it is, and to love it. Romain Rolland heroisminspirationalworld Most men are essentially dead by thirty. Romain Rolland thirtymen There is no joy other than the joy of creating. There is no man who is truly alive other than one who is creating. All others are just shadows on the earth with nothing to do with being alive. The joy of living, whether it is love or action, is the joy of creating. Romain Rolland creatingjoymen No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books. Romain Rolland reading-booksbook Be 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 healingyearsthinking It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails. Romain Rolland sunshinefailingartist A hero is a man who does what he can. Romain Rolland couragepositivelife One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved. Romain Rolland mistakelovelife 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. Romain Rolland dreamhomemen 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, against others. Romain Rolland lonelinessmenthinking To understand everything is to hate nothing. Romain Rolland hate To 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 suffering is evil and that the man who causes it is a criminal. But thousands of animals are uselessly butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. If any man were to refer to it, he would be thought ridiculous. And that is the unpardonable crime. Romain Rolland vegetarianismanimalmen The friend who understands you, creates you. Romain Rolland Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek the truth, but already to possess it. Romain Rolland discussionclaimsimpossible His (Swami Vivekananda) words are great music, phrases in the style of Beethoven, stirring rhythms like the march of Handel choruses. I cannot touch these sayings of his, scattered as they are through the pages of books, at thirty years' distance, without receiving a thrill through my body like an electric shock. And what shocks, what transports, must have been produced when in burning words they issued from the lips of the hero! Romain Rolland distanceherobook Thousands of animals (now billions) are butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. It cries vengeance upon all the human race. Romain Rolland shadowraceanimal Religious faith in the case of the 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 there are always scrupulously careful to take into consideration the possibility that by reason both the agnostic and atheist may attain truth in their own way. Such tolerance may be surprising to religious believers in the West, but it is an integral part of Vedantic belief. Romain Rolland atheistreligiousrunning Passion is like genius: a miracle. Romain Rolland passionmiraclegenius Everyone, deep down within, carries a small cemetery of those he has loved. Romain Rolland deep-downcarriecemetery 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 earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India. For more than 30 centuries, the tree of vision, with all its thousand branches and their millions of twigs, has sprung from this torrid land, the burning womb of the Gods. It renews itself tirelessly showing no signs of decay. Romain Rolland dreamhomemen
