Peguy Quotes

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

Charles Peguy

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

Charles Peguy

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

Charles Peguy

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

Charles Peguy

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

Charles Peguy

#6. Technology and tools are useful and powerful when they are your servant and not your master.

Stephen Covey

#7. Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

Charles Peguy

#8. We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.

Charles Peguy

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

Charles Peguy

#10. I'm just in the business of creating; creating new work inspires you to create new work. It's kind of funny.

Karen Walker

#11. The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where impostors will find imprudence.

Charles Caleb Colton

#12. When you love someone you love him as he is.

Charles Peguy

#13. 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

Charles Peguy

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

Charles Peguy

#15. I went to art school, and every Tuesday and Friday we drew the nude. If you look at Western painting, male and female nudes are in the center of every painting. It's difficult and exciting to draw the nude. Why get so upset about this? It's our duty to break taboos.

Peter Greenaway

#16. The faith that I love the best, says God, is hope.

Charles Peguy

#17. People get mad Annabel. Its not the end of the world.

Sarah Dessen

#18. Everything begins in mysticism and ends in politics.

Charles Peguy

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

Charles Peguy

#20. Describing passive violence in this culture is kinda like someone who is drowning in the middle of the ocean giving you the low-down on water. The only way you can really understand passive violence is by going somewhere far, far away from phones, news, TV, the Internet.

Inga Muscio

#21. Suffering passes; having suffered never passes.

Charles Peguy

#22. Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Charles Peguy

#23. Calculus was not math. It was a fucking science experiment gone wrong.

Abbi Glines

#24. The references you do not verify are the good ones.

Charles Peguy

#25. I'd love to write about my growing sexual awareness, but the press would turn it into something squalid.

Ken Livingstone

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

Charles Peguy

#27. So are you saying it wasn't my cock that filled your pussy with come? It wasn't my
seed that grew inside you? It wasn't me you saw each time you looked in her eyes?

B.B. Reid

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

Charles Peguy

#29. 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.

Charles Peguy

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

Charles Peguy

#31. 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.

Charles Peguy

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

Charles Peguy

#33. It sounds otherworldly and mysterious, submerged under a bed of spacious texture. A place of awe where don't have answers to all of your questions.

Brooke Waggoner

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

Charles Peguy

#35. Freedom is a system based on courage.

Charles Peguy

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

Charles Peguy