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  <title><![CDATA[Pensees (Penguin Classics)]]></title>
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  <default_description>&quot;L'homme est un roseau pensant&quot;&#160;: cette c&#233;l&#232;bre pens&#233;e ne constitue qu'un des quelque huit cents fragments que comptent les &lt;I&gt;Pens&#233;es&lt;/I&gt;, qui composent l'un des textes fondateurs de la pens&#233;e moderne. Destin&#233;es &#224; l'origine &#224; convaincre les libertins de la n&#233;cessit&#233; de croire en Dieu, ces pens&#233;es, telles que nous les lisons, forment un texte qui d&#233;passe largement la simple apologie de la religion chr&#233;tienne et qui s'adresse &#224; un public tr&#232;s large, puisque son principal sujet, c'est l'Homme. En voulant apporter la preuve math&#233;matique de l'existence de Dieu (c'est l'argument bien connu du &quot;pari&quot;), Pascal nous livre avant tout une exemplaire peinture de l'Homme, min&#233; par sa mis&#232;re, mais sauv&#233; par sa grandeur. Maximes &#224; m&#233;diter au hasard ou essai sur l'Homme &#224; d&#233;vorer d'une traite, chacun trouvera dans ce texte une lecture qui lui correspond. &lt;I&gt;--Karla Manuele&lt;/I&gt;</default_description>
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      <name><![CDATA[Blaise Pascal]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[Pascal's classic thoughts on numerous topics related to Christianity.  This book is at times difficult to read, since he died before he finished it thus leaving many sections only outlined in note form.  But slogging through those portions is worthwhile when you get to the good, thought-provoking pa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41199089">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Pascal is tenderly calculative. I wonder if I just made that word up? If you've heard evangelical buzz talk centered around &quot;the good, the true, and the beautiful&quot;--which I have used in my own writing--you can know that Pascal used those terms in similar context in the 17th century. Pensee...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2521601">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Blaise Pascal only cared about pleasure and friends and living a life of happiness... until late one night on November 23, 1654.  Pascal was out late that night with his buddies when he had a near death experience. A runnaway cart nearly crushed the young men.  Pascal fainted on the street and had a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38764434">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It is difficult to decide what to say upon reading The Pensees of Blaise Pascal. The fragments, some resembling aphorisms with a few extending to several pages of prose, were left disorganized and unedited at Pascal's death. Readers have pondered over The Pensees (literally thoughts) ever since tryi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22454128">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="407095">
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    <body><![CDATA[Not to be mixed up with his first, somewhat less mature work of theology, &quot;Peeneses,&quot; this collection of aphorisms and assorted sentence-long bits of wisdom has been pleasing everyone it could since it was written nearly eight thousand years ago. Pascal's influence on such diverse thinkers...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/407095">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Mar 20 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my favorite books.  Here Pascal discusses many issues with regards to his belief that God exists.  My favorite part is his argument that many refer to as the Wager.  Problem solving through abstract thought is how he demonstrates his skill.  Amazing stuff. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A fantastic book made from the collected snippets of Pascal's writings that were found after his death.  Most of it is of an apologetic nature, but some of it is of a more general christian philosophical nature.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of those books you can hardly believe was written four centuries ago. Pascal's pensées are surprisingly modern and profound, leaving the reader with enough reflection material for at least a year.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I threw this book in a garbage can underneath the el on Lake St. wager my ass! Opportunism of the worst kind; that which deals with the immortal soul. Nonsense!]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[unfortunately, I haven't read the whole of the Pensees, although I did spend many a long afternoon working on them. I thought they were intellectually challenging, and loved the challenge. I focused on themes and topics, and took a lot of notes, as if I were back to school! I thoroughly enjoyed myse...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29163014">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="1588182">
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  <read_at>Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Pascal is unclassifiable--theology, philosophy of science, sociology, jurisprudence, metaphysics, skepticism, and jesuit-hate mix in his work. I kind of like the guy.  This book is best taken in small doses, with plenty of time to stare of into space, and think, is he right? The surprise of this wor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1588182">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What can you say, other than he was a freaking genius, but he mused his life away?  I bet Pascal would have loved the sticky note.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Proverbs by one of, if not the, greatest minds of the 17th century. I'm among the millions who have been influenced by this work over the centuries. The Pensees (&quot;thoughts&quot;) were left individually on pieces of paper and have been compiled in different orderings. All the versions I've read ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18347278">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I need to give Pascal some more time; me seemed a little less grating than Kierkegaard.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[beautiful aphorisms, second only to chuck norris-isms and jack handey's deep thoughts]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Pensees (Penguin Classics) by A. J. Krailsheimer/ Blaise Pascal (?)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I won't rate this since I hardly remember.]]></body>
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