Charles Peguy Quotes

The references you do not verify are the good ones.

Everything begins in mysticism and ends in politics.

A great philosophy is not a philosophy without reproach; it is philosophy without fear.

The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful to truth must make himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable renascent errors

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

One has not the right to betray even a traitor. Traitors must be fought, got betrayed.

When you love someone you love him as he is.

A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.

Life holds only one tragedy, ultimately: not to have been a saint.

Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty of having produced a son who raised his hand against him.

It is the essence of genius to make use of the simplest ideas.

When a man dies, he does not just die of the disease he has: he dies of his whole life.

Suffering passes; having suffered never passes.

A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts commotion.

Freedom is a system based on courage.

I prefer a saint with faults to a sinner with none.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

We shall never know how many acts of cowardice have been motivated by the fear of appearing not sufficiently progressive.

The faith that I love the best, says God, is hope.

Homer is new this morning, and perhaps nothing is as old as today's newspaper.

He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.

We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.