Charles Peguy Quotes

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

  Charles Peguy

  Tragedy, Saint, Has Beens

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• What is most contrary to salvation is not sin but habit.

  Charles Peguy

  Sin, Habit, Salvation

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

  Charles Peguy

  Courage, Progressive, Cowardice

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• Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

  Charles Peguy

  Teaching, Libertarian Party, Liberty

  "Basic Verities, Prose and Poetry" by Charles Peguy, translated by Ann and Julien Green, New York: Pantheon, (p. 153), 1943.

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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.

  Charles Peguy

  Inspirational, Clarity, Difficult

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

  Charles Peguy

  Truth, Honesty, Liars

  'Lettre du Provincial' 21 December 1899, in 'Basic Verities' (1943) p. 46

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• It is better to have a war for justice than peace in injustice.

  Charles Peguy

  Peace, War, Justice

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• Suffering passes; having suffered never passes.

  Charles Peguy

  Suffering

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

  Charles Peguy

  Creativity, Essence, Ideas

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• Freedom is a system based on courage.

  Charles Peguy

  Courage, History

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

  Charles Peguy

  Charles Peguy (2005). “The Portal of the Mystery of Hope”, p.1, A&C Black

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• The sinner is at the heart of Christianity. No one is as competent as the sinner in matters of Christianity. No one, except a saint.

  Charles Peguy

  Heart, Saint, Matter

  "Basic Verities, Prose and Poetry". Book by Charles Péguy. "Un Nouveau théologien" (1911), 1943.

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• Everything begins in mysticism and ends in politics.

  Charles Peguy

  Ends, Mysticism

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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.

  Charles Peguy

  Loss, People, Justice

  "Men and Saints". Book by Charles Péguy, transl. by Anne and Julian Green, p. 11, 1944.

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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.

  Charles Peguy

  Writing, Tears, Pockets

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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

  Charles Peguy

  Honesty, Men, Errors

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

  Charles Peguy

  Morning, Today, Newspapers

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• It has never been given to a man to attain at once his happiness and his salvation.

  Charles Peguy

  Happiness, Men, Salvation

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

  Charles Peguy

  Self Respect, Saint, Faults

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

  Charles Peguy

  Men, Dying, Doe

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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.

  Charles Peguy

  Father, Son, Hands

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• When you love someone you love him as he is.

  Charles Peguy

  Love, Inspirational, When You Love Someone

  Charles Péguy, “Freedom”

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

  Charles Peguy

  Friendship, Real, Love Is

  "Basic Verities, Prose and Poetry" by Charles Peguy, translated by Ann and Julien Green, ("The Search for Truth"), 1943.

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• The life of an honest man must be a perpetual infidelity.

  Charles Peguy

  Honesty, Men, Infidelity

  "Basic Verities, Prose and Poetry" by Charles Peguy, translated by Ann and Julien Green, (p. 51), 1943.

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

  Charles Peguy

  Philosophy, Great Philosophy, Reproach

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