🛂 Passport to... Pascal's Pensées

In which Blaise Pascal, the brilliant 17th century polymath, grapples with faith, reason, and losing oneself in the cosmos.

“The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.”

Blaise Pascal, Pensées

This month, my Great Books group is delving into Blaise Pascal’s Pensées. [Paid Subscribers: access the study guide here.] One of early modernity’s most moving works, it unflinchingly examines humanity’s great paradox: our inherent dignity and pervasive misery in a vast, …