Pensées

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 30, 2023

In Category - Philosophy, Religion

Authors: Blaise Pascal In Year : 1945

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Pensées

Introduction
Chapter 1
Chapter 2 pt 1
Chapter 2 pt 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7 pt 1
Chapter 7 pt 2
Chapter 7 pt 3
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11 pt 1
Chapter 11 pt 2
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14

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)