The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal
The collection of writings known as “Thoughts” were not published in Pascal’s lifetime. They consist of his musings about life, religion, god, sin, miracles, and other matters.
The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal, translated from the text of M. Auguste Molinier by C. Kegan Paul (London: George Bell and Sons, 1901).
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- Translator: Charles Kegan Paul
- Author: Blaise Pascal
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Table of Contents
- PREFACE.
- GENERAL INTRODUCTION.
- PASCAL’S PROFESSION OF FAITH.
- GENERAL INTRODUCTION.
- NOTES FOR THE GENERAL INTRODUCTION.
- THE MISERY OF MAN WITHOUT GOD OR THAT NATURE IS NATURALLY CORRUPT.
- PREFACE TO THE FIRST PART.
- MAN’S DISPROPORTION.
- DIVERSION.
- THE GREATNESS AND LITTLENESS OF MAN.
- OF THE DECEPTIVE POWERS OF THE IMAGINATION.
- OF JUSTICE CUSTOMS AND PREJUDICES.
- THE WEAKNESS UNREST AND DEFECTS OF MAN.
- THE HAPPINESS OF MAN WITH GOD; OR, THAT THE SCRIPTURE SHOWS A REDEEMER.
- PREFACE TO THE SECOND PART.
- OF THE NEED OF SEEKING TRUTH.
- THE PHILOSOPHERS.
- THOUGHTS ON MAHOMET AND ON CHINA.
- OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
- THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE SACRED BOOKS.
- THE PROPHECIES.
- OF TYPES IN GENERAL AND OF THEIR LAWFULNESS.
- THAT THE JEWISH LAW WAS FIGURATIVE.
- OF THE TRUE RELIGION AND ITS CHARACTERISTICS.
- THE EXCELLENCE OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION.
- OF ORIGINAL SIN.
- THE PERPETUITY OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION.
- PROOFS OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION.
- PROOFS OF THE DIVINITY OF JESUS CHRIST.
- THE MISSION AND GREATNESS OF JESUS CHRIST.
- THE MYSTERY OF JESUS.
- OF THE TRUE RIGHTEOUS MAN AND OF THE TRUE CHRISTIAN.
- THE ARRANGEMENT.
- OF MIRACLES IN GENERAL. THE MIRACLE OF THE HOLY THORN.
- JESUITS AND JANSENISTS.
- THOUGHTS ON STYLE.
- VARIOUS THOUGHTS.
- NOTES
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