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Charles Peguy

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    Charles Peguy

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

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    A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts commotion.

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    Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty of having produced a son who raised his hand against him.

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    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.

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    Freedom is a system based on courage.

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    He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.

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    Homer is new this morning, and perhaps nothing is as old as today's newspaper.

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    I prefer a saint with faults to a sinner with none.

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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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    It is better to have a war for justice than peace in injustice.

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    It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.

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

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    Life holds only one tragedy, ultimately: not to have been a saint.

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

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    One has not the right to betray even a traitor. Traitors must be fought, got betrayed.

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    The classical artist can be recognized by his sincerity, the romantic by his laborious insincerity.

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    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 to truth must make himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable renascent errors

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    The life of an honest man must be a perpetual infidelity.

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    The references you do not verify are the good ones.

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    The sinner is at the heart of Christianity. No one is as competent as the sinner in matters of Christianity. No one, except a saint.

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    Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

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    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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    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.

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    We shall never know how many acts of cowardice have been motivated by the fear of appearing not sufficiently progressive.

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    What is most contrary to salvation is not sin but habit.

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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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    When you love someone you love him as he is.

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    Tout commence en mystique et finit en politique.