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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.
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Pensées and is
Pensées is a history of science and mathematics with Sophie's commentary.
* Blaise Pascal's Pensées is posthumously published.
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.
One of his professors spoke about the philosopher and scientist Blaise Pascal, quoting a sentence from the Pensées: " Man is only a reed, the weakest thing in nature ; but he is a thinking reed.
" Risk ", Goldmann wrote in his classic study of Pascal's Pensées and Jean Racine's Phèdre, " is possibility of failure, hope of success, and the synthesis of the three in a faith which is a wager are the essential constituent elements of the human condition ".
Alexander Dru about Haecker ’ s Journal in the Night: ( 1950 ) “ This book, reminiscent in form of Pascal's Pensées, is his last testimony to the truth and a confession of faith that is a spontaneous rejoinder to a particular moment in history.
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 ".
Pensées and name
( Pensées, meaning thoughts, was the name given to the collection of unpublished notes which, after Pascal's death, were assembled to form an incomplete treatise on Christian apologetics.
Pensées and posthumously
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.
Pascal formulated the wager within a Christian framework, and it was set out in section 233 of his posthumously published Pensées.
* Blaise Pascal – Pensées ( posthumously published )
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.
Pensées and which
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.
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.
Pensées and had
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.
Harless received a further impulse from his study of Blaise Pascal's Pensées, but at about this time he had a crisis of conscience ; he turned to the
Pensées and for
Blaise Pascal mentions in his Pensées ( Lafuma 15 ) that Perseus was blamed for not committing suicide, supposedly after his defeat at Pydna.
* 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
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 ).
Pensées and Christian
The Pensées ( literally, " thoughts ") represented a defense of the Christian religion by Blaise Pascal, the renowned 17th century philosopher and mathematician.
Pensées and was
Pascal's religious conversion led him into a life of asceticism, and the Pensées was in many ways his life's work.
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 ).
He was converted to socialism by Blaise Pascal's Pensées, and gave up the practice of law to write and lecture on socialism.
In her memoir Love's Work: A Reckoning with Life she claims that her interest in philosophy and desire to pursue it was initiated at age 17 when she read Pascal's Pensées and Plato's The Republic.
Pensées and .
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.
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.
AG Henderson, 1854 ), and in the same year Des Pensées de Pascal.
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.
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.
The wager builds on the theme of other Pensées where Pascal systematically dismantles the notion that we can trust purely in reason.
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.
* Les Pensées de Blaise Pascal.
Blaise Pascal in the Pensées discusses the human condition in saying " we seek rest in a struggle against some obstacles.
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.
* " Pensées Diverses sur l ' Occasion de la Comète " ( 1682 ) translated as " Various Thoughts on the Occasion of the Comet " ( 2000 ) by Robert C. Bartlett, SUNY Press.
In Pensées hors du Rond, La Liberté de l ’ esprit.
* 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.
is and fact
In fact, one important aspect of their very religion is the annihilation of men ''.
In fact it has caused us to give serious thought to moving our residence south, because it is not easy for the most objective Southerner to sit calmly by when his host is telling a roomful of people that the only way to deal with Southerners who oppose integration is to send in troops and shoot the bastards down.
The fact is due mainly to international wars, both hot and cold.
While the pattern is uneven, some having gained more than others, nationalism has in fact served the Western peoples well.
In point of fact, this is a beige box with a bright red door, about one and a half feet square and hung from the wall about six feet from the door to Wisman's right.
The fact is that the Southern Confederacy differed from the earlier one almost as much as the Federal Constitution did.
To my knowledge, Lincoln remains the only Head of State and Commander-in-Chief who, while fighting a fearful war whose issue was in doubt, proved man enough to say this publicly -- to give his foe the benefit of the fact that in all human truth there is some error, and in all our error, some truth.
In fact the accumulation of the hardware of destruction is day by day increasing our fear of each other.
The new fact the initiates of this cult have to learn is that they must move toward simplicity.
The magic circle is, in fact, a symbol of and preparation for the metaphysical orgasm ''.
Operating as a one man police force in fact if not in name, he is at once more independent and more dedicated than the police themselves.
`` I may possibly be a greater risk than is the normal person of my age '', the President had said on February 29th of the election year, ignoring the fact that no one of his age had ever lived out another term.
In the incessant struggle with recalcitrant political fact he learns to focus the essence of a problem in the significant detail, and to articulate the distinctions which clarify the detail as significant, with what is sometimes astounding rapidity.
we accord it its place there, and in Lawrence's treatment we are given the innocent fantasy of a child, in fact, the form in which oedipal love is expressed in childhood.
There is probably some significance in the fact that two of the best incest stories I have encountered in recent years are burlesques of the incest myth.
How much they esteemed him is shown by the fact that their underground committee selected him as one of the few who would be helped to escape.
That is not to deny that he has been aware of traditions, of course, that he is steeped in them, in fact, or that he has dealt with them, in his books.
There is evidence to suggest, in fact, that many authors of the humorous sketches were prompted to write them -- or to make them as indelicate as they are -- by way of protesting against the artificial refinements which had come to dominate the polite letters of the South.
It seems quite obvious that all the really difficult tasks of human beings arise from the fact that man is not one, but many.
If our sincerity is granted, and it is granted, the discrepancy can only be explained by the fact that we have come to believe hearsay and legend about ourselves in preference to an understanding gained by earnest self-examination.
Perhaps the mere fact that by plucking on the nerves nature can awaken in the most ordinary of us, temporarily anyway, the sleeping poet, and in poets can discover their immortality, is the most remarkable of all the remarkable phenomena to which we can attest??
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