Blaise Pascal

3 Things I’ve Learned from Blaise Pascal

August 8, 2023

I’ve been reading and reflecting on philosopher Blaise Pascal’s extraordinary book Pensées (pronounced in French “Pon-SAYZ” and roughly translated as “Thoughts”) for a long time. Yet Pensées is really...

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Blaise Pascal on the Human Condition

September 3, 2019

Poets, playwrights, philosophers, and psychologists all take their turns offering insights on the “human condition.” They seek to explain the basic nature, identity, struggle,...

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Take Up and Read: Making Sense of It All

September 11, 2018

I am writing this ongoing blog series on Reflections to encourage Christians to read more vigorously and enrich their lives with Christian classics in...

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How about Reading Some Christian Classics? Part 1

June 12, 2018

Only human beings read. And from a biblical perspective, it may be reasonably inferred that humans’ capacity to read is part of the intellectual...

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A Dozen Book Favorites, Part 2

January 9, 2018

As I wrote in part one of this series, only human beings are readers. The ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle thought the distinguishing feature of...

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Take Up and Read: Pensées

January 25, 2017

This week's book Pensées is by Blaise Pascal and is considered both a theological and philosophical masterwork. It was intended to be Pascal's apologetics...

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