PenseesBlaise Pascal intended the unfinished notes and essays which make up his Pensees as a systematic and uncompromising defence of Christian belief. Shot through wigh aphoristic brilliance and gleaming with scientific incisiveness, the Pensees display a vision of humanity's weakness and the futility of worldly life that is awesome in its rigor and force. Whether his subject is the human heart or the famous wager of faith, Pascal writes with a unique blend of lucidity and eloquence; his Pensees are provocative, paradoxical and disarmingly personal.
People should not be allowed to graduate high school without having first read this book and written a comprehensive essay on it. 'Pensees' is much more than an apology for the Christian faith, it is an investigation into and search for levels of temperance in all areas of human endeavor. Pascal's seemingly simple yet ultra-deep ruminations about life and mind will forever immunize any diligent reader against the tragedy of superficial thinking and instill the comedy of balanced comprehensiveness. --Reviewer: umago2 from Sherman Oaks, CA
