Pensées

by Blaise Pascal · written 1657-1662, published 1670

W. F. Trotter's translation, 1904. 87 parts, about 101,453 words, 8 hours of reading. Source edition.

Passages the guide marks

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces terrifies me.
Fragment 201 (Lafuma), 206 (Brunschvicg) · Read it in Section III, 195
The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know.
Fragment 423 (Lafuma), 277 (Brunschvicg) · Read it in Section IV, 252
Man is only a reed, the weakest thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. The whole universe need not arm itself to crush him; a vapour, a drop of water is enough to kill him. But if the universe crushed him, man…
Fragment 200 (Lafuma), 347 (Brunschvicg) · Read it in Section V, 332
If you win you win everything; if you lose you lose nothing. Wager, then, that he exists, without hesitating.
Fragment 418 (Lafuma), 233 (Brunschvicg) · Read it in Section III, 233
All the unhappiness of men comes from one thing, that they cannot stay quietly in their own room.
Fragment 136 (Lafuma), 139 (Brunschvicg) · Read it in Section II, 139

About this text

Public domain in the United States; the Project Gutenberg edition is free of restrictions under the Project Gutenberg License. Translated by W. F. Trotter. It is not the edition the programs assign; the guide names that one, and the buy links there point at it.

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