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Pensées - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Pensées (literally, "thoughts") represented a defense of the Christian religion by Blaise Pascal, the renowned 17th century philosopher and mathematician. Pascal's religious conversion led him in...
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Christianity for Modern Pagans: Pascal's Pensees by Peter Kreeft ..... Sometimes, he could barely get down a "pensee" because it hurt so much to write.
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SECTION VIII: THE FUNDAMENTALS OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION...
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Among the contemporaries of Descartes none displayed greater natural genius than Pascal, but his mathematical reputation rests more on what he might have done than on what he actually effected, as during a considerable part of his life he deemed it his duty to devote his whole time to religious exercises.
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Pensées by Blaise Pascal, translated by Edward Payson Dutton Pensées ("thoughts") represent a defense of the Christian religion by Blaise Pascal, and are in many ways his life's work.
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Or, First part: That nature is corrupt. Proved by nature itself. Order.—I might well have taken this discourse in an order like this: to show the vanity of all conditions of men, to show the vanity of ordinary lives, and then the vanity of philosophic lives, sceptics, stoics;
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Sobbing, shaking and knowing death was imminent, [Nancy Reagan] held her husband's hand about 1 p.m. Saturday as he inhaled deeply and opened his eyes for the first time in five days. While most thought Alzheimer's disease had robbed former President Reagan of all his memory,
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How should we deal with words that are not assigned to a specific language, but are international, such as chemical symbols? They may be "international", but they are also accepted as valid in each language that accepts them.
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But as impressive as all of these accomplishments are, Pascal’s most important legacy is his apologetic for the Christian faith, the Pensées. Unfortunately, the Pensées live up to their name. They were literally written one thought at a time. Pascal never finished them,
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