Peguy Charles 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

There was pain and then there was agony. Hello, agony. I'd been waiting for you. Finish me off. Please. — Karina Halle

What I'm thinking is: here I am, lying under a haystack ... The tiny little place I occupy is so small in relation to the rest of space where I am not and where it's none of my business; and the amount of time which I'll succeed in living is so insignificant by comparison with the eternity where I haven't been and never will be ... And yet in this atom, in this mathematical point, the blood circulates, the brain works and even desires something as well .. What sheer ugliness! What sheer nonsense! — Ivan Turgenev

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

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

I'm an eclectic assortment of power and pride. I don't need rules or labels. Though if there was one I would lay claim to every time, it is as simple as it is misunderstood. I am a witch. — Hollow Ryan

Why spend a day in the library when you can learn the same thing by working in the laboratory for a month? — Frank Westheimer

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

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

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom. — Charles Peguy

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

True terrorism, you know, weaponized fear. In defense of ourselves, we're fighting - actively fighting something else. But if you're going to fight terrorism, to me, you fight the root causes of terrorism. — Lupe Fiasco

And they were also slightly less intelligent than he was. This is a quality you should always pray for in your would-be murderer. — Terry Pratchett

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

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

What my research has shown me is that experts tend on the whole to form very rigid camps; that within these camps, a dominant perspective emerges that often silences opposition; that experts move with the prevailing winds, often hero-worshipping their own gurus. — Noreena Hertz

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

It is a kind of law of nature. The goal one aims for can rarely be reached by a direct road. — Konosuke Matsushita

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

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

I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican. — Dan Quayle

The undivided heart is a good thing, as long as you love somebody. In fact, a divided heart that loves someone is better than an undivided heart that loves nobody
the latter would actually be undivided egoism. It would mean having one's heart full, but with the most corrupting thing there is: oneself. Of this type of virgin and celibate, unfortunately none too rare, Charles Peguy has rightly said: Because they do not belong to someone else, they think they belong to God. Because they love no one else, they think that they love God. — Raniero Cantalamessa