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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It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.
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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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The classical artist can be recognized by his sincerity, the romantic by his laborious insincerity.
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Everything begins in mysticism and ends in politics.
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Suffering passes; having suffered never passes.
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What is most contrary to salvation is not sin but habit.
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When you love someone you love him as he is.
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The references you do not verify are the good ones.
The faith that I love the best, says God, is hope.
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It is the essence of genius to make use of the simplest ideas.
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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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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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He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.
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When a man dies, he does not just die of the disease he has: he dies of his whole life.