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Romain Rolland (French: [ʁɔlɑ̃]; 29 January 1866 – 30 December 1944) was a French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and mystic who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915 "as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the sympathy and love of truth with which he has described different types of human beings".

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As a result of all his education, from everything he hears and sees around him, the child absorbs such a lot of lies and foolish nonsense, mixed in with essential truths, that the first duty of the adolescent who wants to be a healthy man is to disgorge it all.

Children, Disgorge, Education, Lying, Man, Men

Every man, every art, has its hypocrisy. The world is fed with little and many lies.

Art, Fed, Lying, Men, World

Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow.

Faith, Riddling, Tomorrow, Way, Yesterday

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.

Alone, Loneliness, Man, Men, Necessary, Thinking

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 what that is: but, you see, I imagine that a hero is a man who does what he can. The others do not do it.

Hero, Men, See, Silly, Vain

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.

Able, Actions, Auditorium, People, Stage, Theatre

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

Life, Love, Loved, Mistake

Leave your theories. All theories, you see, even those of virtue, are bad, foolish, mischievous.

Bad, Foolish, Mischievous, See, Theory, Virtue

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!

Book, Choruses, Distance, Hero, Receiving, Words

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

Firsts, Light, Man, Men, Shed, Sun

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 world.

Cause, Europe, India, Our World, Soul, Topple

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

Animal, Distinguishes, Financial, Funny, Man, Money

A great nation assailed by war has not only its frontiers to protect: it must also protect its good sense. It must protect itself from the hallucinations, injustices, and follies which the plague lets loose.

Assailed, Hallucinations, Injustice, Injustices, Nation, War

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 renounce any part of our real nature. . . whence we formerly took our flight.

Eagles, Eaglets, Europe, Himalayas, Real, Took

The friend who understands you, creates you.

Creates, Friend, Understands

Let us seek truth everywhere; let us cull it wherever we can find its blossom or its SEED. Having Found the seed, let us scatter it to the winds of heaven. Where ever it may blow, it will germinate. There is no lack in this wide universe of souls that will form the new ground.

Blow, Found, Having, Souls, Truth, Wind

No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books.

Book, Books, Reading Books, Reads

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.

Atheist, Believers, Religious, Running, Teach, West

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

Claims, Discussion, Impossible, Truth

The theatre, like the fresco, is art fitted to its place. And therefore it is above all else the human art, the living art.

Art, Fitted, Fresco, Humans, Theatre

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