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.
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
artist sincerity insincerity
The classical artist can be recognized by his sincerity, the romantic by his laborious insincerity.
self-respect faults saint
I prefer a saint with faults to a sinner with none.