Charles Peguy

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Charles Peguy (1873–1914)

French philosopher, poet, publisher, Catholic Theologian, cited by Benito Mussolini as a source of his Fascist beliefs. It seems certain, however, that his appropriation by people like Mussolini more than twenty years after his death, would have horrified Péguy.

Attributed

  • "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."
  • “When I see my best friend coming I do not say to myself ‘How am I going to manage propagandizing him?’”
  • “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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