Key insights from
Pensées
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9 minute read
Published Dec 1, 1995
What you'll learn
Blaise Pascal was an inventor, mathematician, philosopher, and essayist in seventeenth-century France. In his short life, he catalogued his many pensées, or thoughts, on human nature and faith. Here are a few.
Key insights
- • What you'll learn
- 1 Imagination overpowers reason every time.
- 2 Diversion is man’s best attempt to cope with his unhappiness.
- 3 God’s wisdom is utterly other than the powers and intellects of the world.
- 4 The Christian acknowledges his profound brokenness while simultaneously aspiring to holiness.
- 5 The true Jew and the true Christian follow the same religion.
- 6 Put your money on God’s existence: if you’re wrong, you lose nothing; if you’re right, you gain everything.
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