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
Charles Peguy quotes about
courage
Freedom is a system based on courage.
courage progressive cowardice
We shall never know how many acts of cowardice have been motivated by the fear of appearing not sufficiently progressive.
cannot french-philosopher genius imagine man rich
Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.
winning innocence empty
It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.
philosophy finals causes
A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts commotion.
philosophy great-philosophy reproach
A great philosophy is not a philosophy without reproach; it is philosophy without fear.
real love-is genius
Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.
betrayal betrayed traitor
One has not the right to betray even a traitor. Traitors must be fought, got betrayed.
honesty men infidelity
The life of an honest man must be a perpetual infidelity.
artist sincerity insincerity
The classical artist can be recognized by his sincerity, the romantic by his laborious insincerity.
honesty men errors
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 to truth must make himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable renascent errors
self-respect faults saint
I prefer a saint with faults to a sinner with none.
ends mysticism
Everything begins in mysticism and ends in politics.
suffering
Suffering passes; having suffered never passes.