Quotes from Charles Peguy

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

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

Freedom is a system based on courage.

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

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

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Life holds only one tragedy, ultimately: not to have been a saint.

The faith that I love the best, says God, is hope.

When you love someone you love him as he is.

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

It is better to have a war for justice than peace in injustice.

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

Short of genius, a rich man cannot imagine poverty.

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

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.

When a man dies, he does not just die of the disease he has: he dies of his whole life.

The life of an honest man must be a perpetual infidelity.

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.

Everything begins in mysticism and ends in politics.

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

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

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

Surrender is essentially an operation by means of which we set about explaining instead of acting.

Freedom is a system based on courage.