Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog Project Gutenberg 2025-05-26 Public domain in the USA. 133 Pascal, Blaise 1623 1662 Montalte, Louis de Béri, Gyula 1860 1902 Beri, Gyula Pensées. Hungarian Pascal gondolatai $aBudapest :$bFranklin-Társulat, $c1890. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pens%C3%A9es Albert László from page images generously made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library Pascal gondolatai by Blaise Pascal is a collection of philosophical and theological reflections written in the mid-17th century. In concise, often aphoristic notes, it probes the limits of reason, the nature of belief, and the paradoxes of the human condition, bringing mathematical rigor to moral psychology and Christian apologetics. Expect a rigorous yet personal inquiry that weighs skepticism against faith and shows how language, method, and imagination shape what we take to be true. The opening of the work first presents a biographical sketch: a portrait of a precocious mathematician and physicist whose ill health, near-fatal shock, and disenchantment with worldly society led to religious retreat at Port-Royal amid Jansenist controversies and polemics with the Jesuits; it also explains that the Thoughts survive as unfinished fragments and praises their lucid style and humane spirit. The text then begins with a program for proof and exposition modeled on mathematics: define terms to avoid ambiguity, prove only what is not self-evident, leave primitive notions (space, time, motion, number, equality) undefined, and use substitution to keep meanings clear; it contrasts ideal method with what is humanly possible, and introduces the “two infinities” of the very great and the very small. Next come brief counsels on persuasion and style—why pleasing matters, how natural language convinces better than ornate phrasing, and why logic-chopping and sophistry mislead. Finally, in a section on the uncertainty of our knowledge, the fragments weigh dream and waking, habit as a second nature, the instability of sense and reason, the power of imagination and will over judgment, and the stalemate between skeptics and dogmatists—setting the stage for a faith-informed approach to truth. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20250525043716pascal 1890 hu Reading ease score: 58.9 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. hu Apologetics -- Early works to 1800 Catholic Church -- Doctrines -- Early works to 1800 Catholic Church -- Apologetic works -- Early works to 1800 B Text Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches Category: Classics of Literature Category: French Literature Category: Philosophy & Ethics Category: Religion/Spirituality 323976 2025-07-30T06:58:18.494527 text/html 303868 2025-05-26T15:24:23 text/html 215559 2025-07-30T06:58:26.540974 application/epub+zip 210334 2025-07-30T06:58:20.730494 application/epub+zip 210334 2025-07-30T06:58:19.341499 application/epub+zip 386319 2025-07-30T06:58:30.613986 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 361602 2025-07-30T06:58:25.603986 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 296164 2025-07-30T06:58:17.879529 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 276358 2025-05-26T15:24:23 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 14997 2025-07-30T06:58:30.815934 application/rdf+xml 14139 2025-07-30T06:58:19.876480 image/jpeg 3780 2025-07-30T06:58:19.609491 image/jpeg 179829 2025-07-30T06:58:18.519501 application/octet-stream application/zip fr.wikipedia en.wikipedia