Famous Quotes by Romain Rolland

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

The light in the heart is greater than the darkness of the world.

Faith is not the suppression of doubt. It is the overcoming of doubt.

Every man who refuses to accept the conditions of life sells his soul.

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.

A hero is a man who does what he can.

If there is one thing which gives radiance to everything, it is the idea of something around the corner.

The artist is the lover of nature; therefore he is her slave and her master.

No great work has ever been accomplished without enthusiasm.

The only way to deal with the future is to function efficiently in the now.

Art is the short cut to the spiritual realization of life.

The more you learn to love, the more you realize that love is inexhaustible.

To understand all is to forgive all.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

The greatest book is not the one whose message engraves itself on the brain, but the one which engraves itself on the heart.

The most noble kind of beauty is that which is not separated from goodness.

The only thing that makes life worth living is to love and to be loved.

Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.

You cannot separate passion from freedom. They are two sides of the same coin.

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

There is no true joy except in the joy of others.