Pensées

Name: Pensées
Author: Blaise Pascal

by Blaise Pascal

Fragmentary philosophical thoughts on God, humanity, and the wager

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Blaise Pascal

French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher who invented the probability calculus and a mechanical calculator. The Pensées, left unfinished at his death, contains some of the most powerful Christian apologetics ever written alongside acute psychological observations. His wager—it is rational to believe in God—remains a touchstone of religious philosophy.

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