Quotes of Charles Péguy - somelinesforyou

“ A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket. ”

- Charles Peguy

“ Tyranny is always better organized than freedom. ”

- Charles Peguy

“ Freedom is a system based on courage. ”

- Charles Peguy

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

- Charles Peguy

“ A great philosophy is not a philosophy without reproach; it is philosophy without fear. ”

- Charles Peguy

“ A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts commotion. ”

- Charles Peguy

“ Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty of having produced a son who raised his hand against him. ”

- Charles Peguy

“ 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 must take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors. ”

- Charles Peguy

“ 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 must take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors. ”

- Charles Peguy

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

- Charles Peguy

“ 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 must take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors. ”

- Charles Peguy

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

- Charles Peguy

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

- Charles Peguy

“ 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

“ One must always tell what one sees. Above all, which is more difficult, one must always see what one sees. ”

- Charles Peguy

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

- Charles Peguy

“ 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 must take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors. ”

- Charles Peguy

“ 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

“ Homer is new this morning, and perhaps nothing is as old as today's newspaper. ”

- Charles Peguy

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

- Charles Peguy

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

- Charles Peguy

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

- Charles Peguy

“ It has never been given to a man to attain at once his happiness and his salvation. ”

- Charles Peguy

“ Tyranny is always better organized than freedom. ”

- Charles Peguy

“ One must always tell what one sees. Above all, which is more difficult, one must always see what one sees. ”

- Charles Peguy

“ One must always tell what one sees. Above all, which is more difficult, one must always see what one sees. ”

- Charles Peguy

“ Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty of having produced a son who raised his hand against him. ”

- Charles Peguy

“ A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts commotion. ”

- Charles Peguy

“ 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 must take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors. ”

- Charles Peguy

“ Tyranny is always better organized than freedom. ”

- Charles Peguy
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