Charles Peguy Quotes
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The faith that I love the best, says God, is hope.
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Suffering passes; having suffered never passes.
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Homer is new this morning, and perhaps nothing is as old as today's newspaper.
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The classical artist can be recognized by his sincerity, the romantic by his laborious insincerity.
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It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.
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Life holds only one tragedy, ultimately: not to have been a saint.
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Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty of having produced a son who raised his hand against him.
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We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.
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It is the essence of genius to make use of the simplest ideas.
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There will be things that I do that no one will be left to understand.
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A great philosophy is not a philosophy without reproach; it is philosophy without fear.
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It has never been given to a man to attain at once his happiness and his salvation.
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Freedom is a system based on courage.
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One has not the right to betray even a traitor. Traitors must be fought, got betrayed.
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Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.
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It is better to have a war for justice than peace in injustice.
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A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts commotion.
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We shall never know how many acts of cowardice have been motivated by the fear of appearing not sufficiently progressive.
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What is most contrary to salvation is not sin but habit.
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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
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When you love someone you love him as he is.
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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.
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Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.
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He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.
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The references you do not verify are the good ones.
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Everything begins in mysticism and ends in politics.
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We said that a single injustice, a single crime, a single illegality, particularly if it is officially recorded, confirmed, a single wrong to humanity, a single wrong to justice and to right, particularly if it is universally, legally, nationally, commodiously accepted, that a single crime shatters and is sufficient to shatter the whole social pact, the whole social contract, that a single legal crime, a single dishonorable act will bring about the loss of ones honor, the dishonor of a whole people. It is a touch of gangrene that corrupts the entire body.
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I prefer a saint with faults to a sinner with none.
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When a man dies, he does not just die of the disease he has: he dies of his whole life.
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The life of an honest man must be a perpetual infidelity.
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