Pensées
by Blaise Pascal
Fragments for an unfinished defence of Christianity: the wager, the misery and grandeur of man, diversion, the heart's reasons, the hidden God. Brilliant, disordered and endlessly quotable; a mathematician's unfinished apologetics.
Read it if…
you want the sharpest short observations on human nature in the tradition.
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Skip it if…
you want a finished argument; it is fragments.
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Three things you will actually use
- All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
- The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.
- Man is a reed, but a thinking reed.
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Read the section on diversion.
Our verdict
Fragments, brilliant.
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