Pascal ebook

Few minds have looked so fiercely into the human heart as Blaise Pascal. Mathematician, physicist and man of the world, he turned — after a night of fire in 1654 — toward the question that would not leave him: what is a human being without God? The Pensées are the notes for the great apology he did not live to finish: fragments of piercing clarity on our restlessness, our greatness and our misery, the hidden God, and the wager that still unsettles every honest unbeliever. Here is not a closed system, but a companion who knew both the salon and the sanctuary. Pascal unmasks the diversions with which we hide from death, then leads the reader, patiently and without vanity, toward Jesus Christ: the prophecies, the miracles, the strange beauty of the Gospel. T. S. Eliot's introduction opens the door to a thinker who must be read again in every generation, because it is not he who changes, but we. This English edition presents the Pensées in their classic sequence — from the misery of man without God to the proofs of Jesus Christ — a book for anyone who has felt the silence of the infinite, and longed for a word that answers it.