Charles Peguy Quotes

• It is the essence of genius to make use of the simplest ideas.

  Charles Peguy

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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.

  Charles Peguy

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• Freedom is a system based on courage.

  Charles Peguy

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• He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.

  Charles Peguy

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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.

  Charles Peguy

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• Homer is new this morning, and perhaps nothing is as old as today’s newspaper.

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

  Charles Peguy

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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 must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.

  Charles Peguy

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Charles Peguy (10)

Birth:	7th January, 1873
Death:	4th September, 1914
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Editor, Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

About

Charles Pierre Peguy was a noted French poet, essayist, and editor born in Orléans. His two main philosophies were socialism and nationalism, but by 1908 at the latest, after years of uneasy agnosticism, he had become a devout but non-practicing Roman Catholic. From that time, Catholicism strongly influenced his works.

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