Pensées
Author: Blaise Pascal
“If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural”Blaise Pascal, the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, was a gifted mathematician and physicist, but it is his unfinished apologia for the Christian religion upon which his reputation now rests. The Pensées is a collection of philosophical fragments, notes and….Read More
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