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
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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.
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Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.
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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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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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Freedom is a system based on courage.
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Homer is new this morning, and perhaps nothing is as old as today's newspaper.
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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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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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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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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.
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He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.
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It is the essence of genius to make use of the simplest ideas.
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The references you do not verify are the good ones.
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What is most contrary to salvation is not sin but habit.