Quotes from 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.

Hope sees what is not, but yet will be.

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.

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

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

It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.

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

We shall never know how many acts of cowardice have been motivated by the fear of appearing not sufficiently progressive.

A great philosophy is not a philosophy without reproach it is philosophy without fear.

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom