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Pensées

Author
Blaise Pascal
Language
English
Length
358 pages
ISBN
9781787360679
Published
2 November 2019
Imprint
The Big Nest
  • Blaise Pascal
  • Pensées
  • history
  • Christianity
  • religion
  • faith
  • truth
  • wisdom
  • spiritual meditations
  • Jesus

Description

The Pensées is the name given posthumously to fragments that Pascal had been preparing for an apology for Christianity, which was never completed. That envisioned work is often referred to as the Apology for the Christian Religion, although Pascal never used that title. Pascal's religious conversion led him into a life of asceticism, and the Pensées was in many ways his life's work. The Pensées represented Pascal's defense of the Christian religion.

Author

Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, and religious thinker — a prodigy of geometry and probability who also wrote of faith with unforgettable intensity. His Pensées and prayers turn toward the grandeur and misery of the human condition. In our catalogue he appears among powerful prayers and contemplative pieces: the scientist who knew that the heart has reasons reason does not know.