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~ Charles Peguy Quotes ~
« on: March 01, 2014, 11:35:05 PM »
Charles Peguy Quotes


A noted French poet, essayist, and editor. 
Charles Peguy was a noted French poet, essayist, and editor. His two main philosophies were socialism and nationalism, but by 1908 at the latest, after years of uneasy agnosticism, he had become a devout but non-practicing Roman Catholic. From that time, Catholicism strongly influenced his works.

Here are some famous quotes by Charles Peguy.




Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

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Short of genius a rich man cannot imagine poverty.

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

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

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

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

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

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« Reply #7 on: March 02, 2014, 08:10:40 PM »
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.