Charles Peguy Quotes

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

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Charles Peguy
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Philosopher
BirthDate
07 January, 1873
DeathDate
05 September, 1914
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