Charles Peguy
Charles Peguy
Charles Pierre Péguywas a noted French poet, essayist, and editor. His two main philosophies were socialism and nationalism, but by 1908 at the latest, after years of uneasy agnosticism, he had become a believing but non-practicing Roman Catholic. From that time, Catholicism strongly influenced his works...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth7 January 1873
CountryFrance
winning innocence empty
It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.
philosophy finals causes
A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts commotion.
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A great philosophy is not a philosophy without reproach; it is philosophy without fear.
real love-is genius
Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.
betrayal betrayed traitor
One has not the right to betray even a traitor. Traitors must be fought, got betrayed.
honesty men infidelity
The life of an honest man must be a perpetual infidelity.
artist sincerity insincerity
The classical artist can be recognized by his sincerity, the romantic by his laborious insincerity.
honesty men errors
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.
ends mysticism
Everything begins in mysticism and ends in politics.
suffering
Suffering passes; having suffered never passes.
loss justice people
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.
happiness men salvation
It has never been given to a man to attain at once his happiness and his salvation.
peace war justice
It is better to have a war for justice than peace in injustice.