Charles Peguy Quotes

List of quotations and sayings by the french philosopher Charles Peguy on topics like genius, legal, dishonorable

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

    — Charles Peguy on love
    55
  • Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

    — Charles Peguy on wealth
    3
  • Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

    — Charles Peguy on tyranny
    2
  • We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.

    — Charles Peguy on perception
    1
  • 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 on honesty
    0
  • 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 on guts
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  • We said that a single injustice, a single crime, a single illegality, particularly if it is officially recorded, confirmed, a single wrong to humanity, a single wrong to justice and to right, particularly if it is universally, legally, nationally, commodiously accepted, that a single crime shatters and is sufficient to shatter the whole social pact, the whole social contract, that a single legal crime, a single dishonorable act will bring about the loss of ones honor, the dishonor of a whole people. It is a touch of gangrene that corrupts the entire body.

    — Charles Peguy on single
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  • About Charles Peguy

    Name Charles Peguy
    Quotes 7 quotations
    Nationality French
    Profession Philosopher
    Birthday October 16
    Top topics genius, legal, dishonorable, bring, contract

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