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
It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.
– Charles Peguy
Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.
– Charles Peguy
Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.
– Charles Peguy
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
Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.
– Charles Peguy
We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.
– Charles Peguy
Homer is new this morning, and perhaps nothing is as old as today's newspaper.
– Charles Peguy
He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.