Pensées (Penguin Classics)

I have several versions of the Pensées. Krailsheimer's is my favorite. It's clear and (I think) accurate. I like the way it is organized. The 32 page introduction is very helpful. And Krailsheimer provides a concordance that allows me to find the various passages in another translation of the Pensées and in the Brunschvicg French edition (G. F. Flammarion, publisher).I've had the Penguin Classics paperback for decades, but recently I needed to refer to Pascal's thoughts in several lessons I was giving. I wanted to have a copy on my iPhone and iPad (and I can search for content electronically . . . nice). So now I can have Pascal at hand wherever I go (w/iPhone in pocket).

I have several editions of Pensees. I bought this one to read the introduction by T S Eliot. This is great for students, or for when I want to mark up the text. Cheap production values, slippery cover, low quality paper.

It's interesting how few spiritual people have read this book. It's truly moving and you'll find yourself repeating much of what Pascal wrote so long ago. It's a book from a man that thought long and hard about faith. While some of his sayings are popular and well known, many of the best I believe are still just waiting in the book to be found.

Pascal was on the bleeding edge of knowledge at his time--perhaps even ahead of his time. He was perhaps seeing even farther than he realized. He experienced the latest telescopes and microscopes and what he saw was infinity--an infinity that terrified him and filled him with anxiety. (And even he knew only a tiny fraction of what we've discovered now.) In this way, he prefigures all the modern existentialists and nihilists. How far from the avuncular popular scientists today with their documentaries that try to make nature "fun"! Reason, he seems to argue, is no match for this vertigo called reality.There is no doubt he's a Christian -- and he tries with all his intellectual might to square this experience of nature with his Christian faith. I tried very hard to take his point of view, to read him charitably, but it's very hard not to believe his final version of Christianity is very, very dark.

For such a brilliant person his ideas of atheist and Christian beliefs were typical of so many other brainwashed writers of the time before science. An athirst can be as happy and moral as any Christian despite what the author believes to be true. Hitler, Mussolini, and many of the other “enlightened” Catholics were evil while many of the atheist Russians who helped destroy them were not. Character and morality have little to do with religious beliefs one way or another and Pascal should have known better.

Highly profound.More highly profound than I can ever hope to explain.Yes much more profound than a man with my limits can express.

I liked it that is was very thoughtful and generous in development of new ideas and even old ones

It's pretty ridiculous to add a kindle version option on this book for you to order it, open it, and find out it's not the same book. Be warned

As a student of philosophy I was eager to get this book, you do need to concentrate while reading it, but it's worth it, came very quickly and in perfect condition.

Very good and succinct points.Quite interesting but you need to focus while reading

Downloaded OK. Haven't had time to read it yet

Some very revealing insights, not dated as the subject is we, ourselves. Great to dip in and out of.

Excellent