Romain Rolland Quotes

در زندگی لحظه‌های قاطعی هست که در آن، همان‌گونه که در شهرهای بزرگ سر شب ناگهان برق روشن می‌شود، آتش جاویدان در جان تیره فروزان می‌گردد. کافی است که جرقه‌ای از یک روح دیگر برجهد و آتش پرومته را به جانی که چشم به راه آن است منتقل سازد.

إن اعتراف الناس بالجميل حتى الطيبين منهم ، كالفاكهة يجب جمعها في أوانها ، أما إذا تُركت زمنا على الشجر فلن تلبث أن تفسد !

Zijn jullie kinderen van Goethe of van Atilla voeren jullie oorlog tegen de legers of tegen de mensheid, dood de mensen maar respecteer hun werken!

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

Es sind die vorgefaßten Meinungen, die es den Völkern so schwer machen, einander zu verstehen, und die es ihnen so leicht machen, einander zu verachten.

I, too, shall wake again.

There are some dead who are more alive than the living." "No, no! It would be more true to say that there are some who are more dead than the dead." "Maybe. In any case there are old things which are still young." "Then if they are still young we can find them for ourselves.... But I don't believe it. What has been good once never is good again.

Everything is music for the born musician.

The newspapers of both countries give publicity only to prejudiced stories unfavorable to the enemy. One would imagine that they devote themselves to collecting only the worst cases, in order to preserve the atmosphere of hatred; and those to which they give predominance are often doubtful and always exceptional.

مرا با حقیقت بیازار ؛ اما هر گز با دروغ آرامم نکن - رومن رولان

Երբ ընտրությունն արված է, էլ կարիք չկա այդ մասին խոսելու, մնում է լոկ ազնվությամբ կատարել պարտականությունը:

On his return to Paris he became associated with a movement towards the renaissance of the theater as a social machine,

I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.

No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books, either to discover or to control himself. And the most objective books are the most deceptive. 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, and from writer to reader spreads the fire that is fed by the various essences, until it becomes a vast conflagration leaping from forest to forest.

حق‌شناسی مردم، - حتی مردم خوب، میوه‌ای است که باید به موقع چید. اگر بگذارند که این میوه روی درخت بماند، به زودی خواهد پوسید.