Pascal's Pensées
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It might seem that about Blaise Pascal, and about the two works on which his fame is founded, everything that there is to say had been said. The details of his life are as fully known as we can expect to know them; his mathematical and physical discoveries have been treated many times; his religious sentiment and his theological views have been discussed again and again; and his prose style has been analysed by Frenc…
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- AuthorBlaise Pascal
- SourceProject Gutenberg #18269
- Length109,610 words · 7h 18m of reading
- Chapters29
- DictionaryIncluded
- CopyrightPublic domain in the United States
- Source checked2026-09-06
Contents
29 chapters
Recovered from the original source text, so you can open the book at any of them.
- 01PASCAL'S PENSEES
- 02INTRODUCTION
- 03NOTE
- 04THOUGHTS ON MIND AND ON STYLE
- 05THE MISERY OF MAN WITHOUT GOD
- 06Part I, 1, 2, c. 1, section 4.[44
- 07Hence savages care nothing for Providence.[60
- 08OF THE NECESSITY OF THE WAGER
- 09OF THE MEANS OF BELIEF
- 10JUSTICE AND THE REASON OF EFFECTS
- 11THE PHILOSOPHERS
- 12The sceptic Arcesilaus,[151] who became a dogmatist.
- 13MORALITY AND DOCTRINE
- 14Dignare me._
- 15THE FUNDAMENTALS OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION
- 16PERPETUITY
- 17That this priesthood should be eternal. _Ibid._
- 18Joseph folds his arms, and prefers the younger.[225
- 19This book will be a testimony for you.[229
- 20TYPOLOGY
- 21Difference between dinner and supper.[237
- 22Fascination. _Somnum suum.[242] Figura hujus mundi._[243
- 23THE PROPHECIES
- 24PROOFS OF JESUS CHRIST
- 25The apparent discrepancy of the Gospels.[282
- 26THE MIRACLES
- 27Ecce praedixi vobis: vos ergo videte._[343
- 28Saint Paul in the isle of Malta.
- 29SECTION XIV
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