# Pensees

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- Book: [Pensees](https://www.bookquiver.com/blaise-pascal/pensees) ([Pensees.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/blaise-pascal/pensees.md))
- Authors: [Blaise Pascal](https://www.bookquiver.com/blaise-pascal)
- Publisher: Penguin Classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4044-645-6
- Pages: 368
- Published: 2003-05-29
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Blaise Pascal, the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, was a gifted mathematician and physicist, but it is his unfinished apologia for the Christian religion upon which his reputation now rests. The Penseés is a collection of philosohical fragments, notes and essays in which Pascal explores the contradictions of human nature in pscyhological, social, metaphysical and - above all - theological terms. Mankind emerges from Pascal's analysis as a wretched and desolate creature within an impersonal universe, but who can be transformed through faith in God's grace.