“May life herself speak! However inadequate I may be in listening to her, and in repeating her words, I shall try to record them, even if they contradict my most secret desires.”— Romain Rolland, Journey Within (1947), Invitation to the JourneyShare
“No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books, either to discover or to control himself.”— Romain RollandShare
“Theatre supposes lives that are poor and agitated, a people searching in dreams for a refuge from thought.”— Romain RollandShare
“In theory there is nothing to hinder our following what we are taught; but in life there are many things to draw us aside.”— EpictetusShare
“That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse: it has no power to harm, without or within.”— Marcus AureliusShare
“The young have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations.”— AristotleShare
“We live in a country where the people own the Government and not in a country where the Government owns the people.”— Winston ChurchillShare
“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.”— C.S. LewisShare
“There is nothing to life that has value, except the degree of power—assuming that life itself is the will to power.”— Friedrich NietzscheShare
