35 Quotes by Charles Péguy

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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