* Pensées sur l ' interprétation de la nature, essai ( 1751 )

Two of her philosophical works, Pensées diverses and Considérations générales sur l ' état des sciences et des letteres aux différentes epoques de leur culture, were published, both posthumously.

* Pensées sur differents sujets

As the results of his work in this line, we have, besides the Des Pensées de Pascal, 1842, Audes sur les femmes et la société du XVII siècle 1853.

At Rotterdam Bayle published his famous Pensées diverses sur la comète de 1680 in 1682, as well as his critique of Louis Maimbourg's work on the history of Calvinism.

** Discours sur les mêmes Pensées, 1672

As he advanced in life, Droz became more and more decidedly religious, and the last work of his prolific pen was Pensées sur le christianisme ( 1842 ).

* 1817: Pensées sur divers sujets

* Le dieu caché ; étude sur la vision tragique dans les Pensées de Pascal et dans le théâtre de Racine.

In Pensées hors du Rond, La Liberté de l ’ esprit.

Portrait of Pierre Louÿs by Henry Bataille ( Têtes et Pensées ; 1901, Paris, Bibliothèque de l ' Arsenal )

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* Mayonade, Pensées et pages inédites de Maine de Biran ( Périgueux, 1896 )

AG Henderson, 1854 ), and in the same year Des Pensées de Pascal.

His two capital works were a commentary on the works of Pascal, Pensées de Pascal, publiées dans le texte authentique, avec un commentaire suivi et une étude littéraire ( 1852 ; 2nd ed.

* Les Pensées de Blaise Pascal.

* Thomas Henry Mahy ( 1862 – 21 April 1936 ) wrote Dires et Pensées du Courtil Poussin, a regular column in La Gazette Officielle de Guernesey, from 1916.

* Pensées de Marc-Aurèle.

* Pensées de Louis XIV, extraites de ses ouvrages et de ses lettres manuscrites.

* Les Provinciales – Pensées et Opuscules divers, Lgf / Le Livre de poche, La Pochothèque, 2004, edited by Philippe Sellier & Gérard Ferreyrolles ( Les Provinciales are edited here after Louis Cognet's edition )

The first modern usage of " ivory tower " in the familiar sense of an unworldly dreamer can be found in a poem of 1837, " Pensées d ’ Août, à M. Villemain ", by Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, a French literary critic and author, who used the term " tour d ' ivoire " to describe the poetical attitude of Alfred de Vigny as contrasted with the more socially engaged Victor Hugo: " Et Vigny, plus secret, Comme en sa tour d ’ ivoire, avant midi rentrait ".

Joseph Joubert ( 7 May 1754 in Montignac, Périgord – 4 May 1824 in Paris ) was a French moralist and essayist, remembered today largely for his Pensées ( Thoughts ), which was published posthumously.

* ( 1994 ) Pensées: The Thoughts of Dan Quayle ( fiction )

Soon after the publication of this volume Madame Ackermann moved back to Paris, where she gathered round her a circle of friends, but published nothing further except a prose volume, the Pensées d ' un solitaire (" Thoughts of a Recluse ", 1883 ), to which she prefixed a short autobiography.

Blaise Pascal ( 1623 – 1662 ) was a satirist for their cause ( in his Lettres provinciales ( 1656 – 57 )), but his greatest moral and religious work was his unfinished and fragmentary collection of thoughts justifying the Chrisian religion named Pensées ( Thoughts ) ( the most famous section being his discussion of the " pari " or " wager " on the possible eternity of the soul ).

In 1746 he wrote his first original work: the Pensées philosophiques, and he added to this a short complementary essay on the sufficiency of natural religion.

( Pensées, meaning thoughts, was the name given to the collection of unpublished notes which, after Pascal's death, were assembled to form an incomplete treatise on Christian apologetics.

The wager builds on the theme of other Pensées where Pascal systematically dismantles the notion that we can trust purely in reason.

* Der Christen Stat ( 1685 ), partly an apology for Christianity and partly suggestions for the reformation of the church, founded on Pascal's Pensées and embodying the fundamental ideas of Spener

Some of the most striking passages in Pascal's Pensées, including the famous section on the Wager, deal with existentialist themes.

In the letter 25, which was not included with the original twenty-four, Voltaire criticizes certain ideas of Blaise Pascal by taking citations from his Pensées and giving his own opinion on the same subject.

He was converted to socialism by Blaise Pascal's Pensées, and gave up the practice of law to write and lecture on socialism.

Born in Orléans, Louis Gustave Vapereau studied philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure from 1838 to 1843, writing his thesis on Pascal's Pensées under the supervision of Victor Cousin.

The Pensées ( literally, " thoughts ") represented a defense of the Christian religion by Blaise Pascal, the renowned 17th century philosopher and mathematician.

* Pensées by Blaise Pascal

This is an allusion to the French philosopher Blaise Pascal, who had articulated the historical significance of Cleopatra's beauty by saying in his Pensées that " Cleopatra's nose, had it been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been changed ".

His two most famous works date from this period: the Lettres provinciales and the Pensées, the former set in the conflict between Jansenists and Jesuits.

Pensées is a history of science and mathematics with Sophie's commentary.

* Blaise Pascal's Pensées is posthumously published.

In his Pensées, philosopher Blaise Pascal contends, evidently speaking ironically because a large nose has symbolized dominance in different periods of history, that Cleopatra's classically beautiful profile changed world history: " Cleopatra's nose, had it been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been changed.

Pascal's religious conversion led him into a life of asceticism, and the Pensées was in many ways his life's work.

The Pensées is in fact a name given posthumously to his fragments, which he had been preparing for an Apology for the Christian Religion and which was never completed.

Although the Pensées appears to consist of ideas and jottings, some of which are incomplete, it is believed that Pascal had, prior to his death in 1662, already planned out the order of the book and had begun the task of cutting and pasting his draft notes into a coherent form.

Blaise Pascal mentions in his Pensées ( Lafuma 15 ) that Perseus was blamed for not committing suicide, supposedly after his defeat at Pydna.

Pascal formulated the wager within a Christian framework, and it was set out in section 233 of his posthumously published Pensées.

Applying to the French classics the rigorous method used with regard to the texts of the Middle Ages, he published the Pensées of Pascal, revised with the original manuscript ( 1887 – 1889 ), and the Provinciales ( 1891 ), edited with notes.

Blaise Pascal in the Pensées discusses the human condition in saying " we seek rest in a struggle against some obstacles.