A review by casparb
Pensées by Blaise Pascal

Actually v much enjoyed this!! Pascal has a style quite besides what one would expect from his time & inclination it's so fluent so personal. Of course the iconic wager is, iconic. We're kind of used to it by now but I'm still just appreciative of that Alexandrian approach to the Gordian Knot. I get the impression that he's very much a feeling person how unphilosophical of me ('The fact is that the present usually hurts. We thrust it out of sight because it distresses us').

This edition also includes a bunch of other papers which are worth equal attention such as the papers found sewn into Pascal's coat which he presumably carried with him as he went about. The first of these seems to be a prayer paper, his own work & it's beautiful.

the eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread