Pensées

By Pascal, Blaise

Book Id: WPLBN0002954871
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File Size: 324.21 MB
Reproduction Date: 2009

Title:	Pensées
Author:	Pascal, Blaise
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Language:	English
Subject:	Non-fiction, Philosophy, Religion
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Pensées
Historic Publication Date:	1945
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Pascal, B. B. (1945). Pensées. Retrieved from http://self.gutenberg.org/

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Pascal's Pensées is widely considered to be a masterpiece, and a landmark in French prose. When commenting on one particular section (Thought #72), Sainte-Beuve praised it as the finest pages in the French language. Will Durant, in his 11-volume, comprehensive The Story of Civilization series, hailed it as the most eloquent book in French prose. In Pensées, Pascal surveys several philosophical paradoxes: infinity and nothing, faith and reason, soul and matter, death and life, meaning and vanity—seemingly arriving at no definitive conclusions besides humility, ignorance, and grace. Rolling these into one he develops Pascal's Wager. (Summary from Wikipedia)

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Philosophy, Religion