Pensees Author:Pascal This is the first translation into English to follow the order of the Pensees as Pascal left them at his death in 1662. Making full use of the latest critical material, it allows the reader to appreciate, without the intrusion of Pascal's editors, the workings of a mind of astonishing clarity and origionality. — The Pensees are the notes which th... more »e great French Mathematician and physicist jotted down in preparation for a reasoned defence of Christian belief. Their crude form brings home Pascal's insight into religious truths and the nature of human life with peculiar and haunting force.« less