Romain Rolland Quotes

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

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

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.

Everything is music for the born musician.

Vešla mu do srdce dveřmi jeho očí; vešla tam celičká a dveře se za ní zavřely.