Charles Peguy quotes
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“Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.”
-- Charles PeguySource : "Basic Verities, Prose and Poetry" by Charles Peguy, translated by Ann and Julien Green, New York: Pantheon, (p. 153), 1943.
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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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“He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.”
-- Charles PeguySource : 'Lettre du Provincial' 21 December 1899, in 'Basic Verities' (1943) p. 46
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“Life holds only one tragedy, ultimately: not to have been a saint.”
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“It is the essence of genius to make use of the simplest ideas.”
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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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“A great philosophy is not a philosophy without reproach; it is philosophy without fear.”
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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 faith that I love the best, says God, is hope.”
-- Charles PeguySource : 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 PeguySource : "Basic Verities, Prose and Poetry". Book by Charles Péguy. "Un Nouveau théologien" (1911), 1943.
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“The references you do not verify are the good ones.”
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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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“I prefer a saint with faults to a sinner with none.”
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“When you love someone you love him as he is.”
-- Charles PeguySource : Charles Péguy, “Freedom”
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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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“One has not the right to betray even a traitor. Traitors must be fought, got betrayed.”
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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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“There will be things that I do that no one will be left to understand.”
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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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“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 PeguySource : "Men and Saints". Book by Charles Péguy, transl. by Anne and Julian Green, p. 11, 1944.
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“What is most contrary to salvation is not sin but habit.”
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“It is better to have a war for justice than peace in injustice.”
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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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“The life of an honest man must be a perpetual infidelity.”
-- Charles PeguySource : "Basic Verities, Prose and Poetry" by Charles Peguy, translated by Ann and Julien Green, (p. 51), 1943.
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“Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.”
-- Charles PeguySource : "Basic Verities, Prose and Poetry" by Charles Peguy, translated by Ann and Julien Green, ("The Search for Truth"), 1943.
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“Homer is new this morning, and perhaps nothing is as old as today's newspaper.”
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“Everything begins in mysticism and ends in politics.”
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“The classical artist can be recognized by his sincerity, the romantic by his laborious insincerity.”
-- Charles Peguy
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