Charles Peguy Quotes & Sayings

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

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

It is better to have a war for justice than peace in injustice. — Charles Peguy

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

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

When you love someone you love him as he is. — Charles Peguy

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

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love. — Charles Peguy

I prefer a saint with faults to a sinner with none. — Charles Peguy

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

The classical artist can be recognized by his sincerity, the romantic by his laborious insincerity. — Charles Peguy

The references you do not verify are the good ones. — Charles Peguy

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

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

Everything begins in mysticism and ends in politics. — Charles Peguy

What is most contrary to salvation is not sin but habit. — Charles Peguy

The life of an honest man must be a perpetual infidelity. — Charles Peguy

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

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty. — Charles Peguy

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

Suffering passes; having suffered never passes. — Charles Peguy

Freedom is a system based on courage. — Charles Peguy

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

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom. — Charles Peguy

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

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

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