35 Quotes by Charles Péguy

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

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

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.

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

Freedom is a system based on courage.

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

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.

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