Pascal's Pensées

Author: Liu Ye
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Publish Date: 2005-11-01
Features: The Greatest Classic of Essays in the World, Bestselling for Four Hundred Years, Translated into Almost All Languages. Pascal repeatedly elaborates on the paradox of humanity between the two extremes of infinity and the infinitesimal through his unique method of revealing contradictions. He profoundly captures the paradox of humanity being both noble and yet extremely weak and powerless, brilliantly revealing the moving theme that greatness lies in human thought. Pascal once said, "All human dignity lies in thought." The guiding power of Pascal lies in his soul. Reading Pascal's Pensées is a journey into the heart of a master, helping one awaken from the nightmare of the spirit. Look at Pascal's status in the eyes of scholars and later generations. Among these immortal debaters, only Pascal remains to this day because only he is a genius, and only he still stands amidst the ruins of the world. — Voltaire
Pascal is a writer destined to be studied by generations. What changes is not him but us. It is not our knowledge that increases, but our attitude toward the world and him that changes. — T. S. Eliot
If the entire French literature could only leave me one book, I would still choose Pensées without hesitation. It is a specimen of the noble and pure French genius. — Victor Giraud
He is to France what Plato is to Greece, Dante is to Italy, Cervantes is to Spain, and Shakespeare is to England. — Chevalier