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Charles Pierre Péguy (French: [ʃaʁl peɡi]; 7 January 1873 – 5 September 1914) 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 believing but non-practicing Roman Catholic. From that time, Catholicism strongly influenced his works.

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

Has Beens, Life, Saint, Tragedy

Everything begins in mysticism and ends in politics.

Begins, Ends, Mysticism, Politics

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.

Bring, Commodiously, Justice, Legally, Loss, People

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

Homer, Morning, Newspapers, Old, Today

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

Father, Hands, Produced, Raises, Son

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

Clarity, Difficult, Inspirational, See, Tell

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.

Pocket, Pockets, Pulls, Tears, Word, Writing

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

Fear, Great Philosophy, Philosophy, Reproach

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

Freedom, Libertarian Party, Liberty, Organized, Teaching, Tyranny

Freedom is a system based on courage.

Based, Courage, Freedom, History, System

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

Causes, Establishes, Finals, Philosophy, Starts, Uneasiness

There will be things that I do that no one will be left to understand.

Left, Things, Understand

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

Betray, Betrayal, Betrayed, Fought, Right, Traitor

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

Errors, Honesty, Life, Man, Men, Successive

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

Artist, Classical, Insincerity, Romantic, Sincerity

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.

Christianity, Except, Heart, Matter, Saint, Sinner

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

Injustice, Justice, Peace, War

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

Empty, Experience, Full, Innocence, Winning

The references you do not verify are the good ones.

Discipline, Good, Ones, Self Discipline, Verify

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

Appearing, Courage, Cowardice, Progressive, Sufficiently

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