CHARLES PEGUY

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.

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

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

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

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

Freedom is a system based on courage.

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

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.

It is impossible to write ancient history because we do not have enough sources, and impossible to write modern history because we have far too many.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The sinner is at the heart of Christianity. No one is as competent as the sinner in matters of Christianity. No one, except a saint.

There will be things that I do that no one will be left to understand.

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

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

One has not the right to betray even a traitor. Traitors must be fought, got betrayed.

When you love someone you love him as he is.

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

What is most contrary to salvation is not sin but habit.