Charles Péguy Quotes

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

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

When a man dies he does not just die of the disease he has: he dies of his whole life.

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

Short of genius a rich man cannot imagine poverty.

A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.

One must always tell what one sees. Above all which is more difficult one must always see what one sees.

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