Charles Peguy
Homer is new this morning, and perhaps nothing is as old as today's newspaper.Collection: Morning
Freedom is a system based on courage.Collection: Courage
Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.Collection: Friendship
He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.Collection: Truth
Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.Collection: Freedom
We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.
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.
Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.
Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty of having produced a son who raised his hand against him.
We shall never know how many acts of cowardice have been motivated by the fear of appearing not sufficiently progressive.Collection: Courage
Life holds only one tragedy, ultimately: not to have been a saint.Collection: Tragedy
What is most contrary to salvation is not sin but habit.Collection: Sin
Suffering passes; having suffered never passes.Collection: Suffering
It is better to have a war for justice than peace in injustice.Collection: Peace
It is the essence of genius to make use of the simplest ideas.Collection: Creativity
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.Collection: Heart
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.Collection: Loss
Everything begins in mysticism and ends in politics.Collection: Ends
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 errorsCollection: Honesty
It has never been given to a man to attain at once his happiness and his salvation.Collection: Happiness
When a man dies, he does not just die of the disease he has: he dies of his whole life.Collection: Men
I prefer a saint with faults to a sinner with none.Collection: Self Respect
When you love someone you love him as he is.Collection: Love
A great philosophy is not a philosophy without reproach; it is philosophy without fear.Collection: Philosophy
The life of an honest man must be a perpetual infidelity.Collection: Honesty
There will be things that I do that no one will be left to understand.Collection: Left
A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts commotion.Collection: Philosophy
The classical artist can be recognized by his sincerity, the romantic by his laborious insincerity.Collection: Artist
One has not the right to betray even a traitor. Traitors must be fought, got betrayed.Collection: Betrayal
It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.Collection: Winning
The references you do not verify are the good ones.Collection: Discipline