BookAges 16–18
Pensées (selections)
Blaise Pascal · 1670
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The fragments. Read the famous ones (the wager, the thinking reed, the two infinities) and then explore.
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Related quotes from the canon
“If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation that He exists.”
— Blaise Pascal, Pensées, fragment 233
“Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed. ... All our dignity consists, then, in thought.”
— Blaise Pascal, Pensées, fragment 200