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6 Charles Peguy Quotes

Charles Peguy offers witty, thought-provoking reflections on history, change, and friendship.

Charles Peguy quotes

  1. Everything begins in mysticism and ends in politics.

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  2. It is impossible to write ancient history because we do not have enough sources and impossible to write modern history because we have too many.

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  3. 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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  4. The world has changed more in the last thirty years than it has since Jesus Christ.

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  5. When I see my best friend coming I do not say to myself 'How am I going to manage propagandizing him?'

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  6. The man who wishes to remain faithful to justice must make himself continually unfaithful to inexhaustibly triumphant injustice.

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