Pascal's Pensées
we are sure of pleasing a man, if we know his ruling, 106;
how to prevent the harmful effect of, 203
Patriarchs, longevity of, 625
Paul, St., 283, 532, 672, 682, 852
Pelagians, the semi-, 776
Penitence, 660, 922
People,
ordinary, have the power of not thinking of that about which they do
not want to think, 259;
sound opinions of the people, 313, 316, 324
Perpetuity, 612, 615, 616
Perseus, 410
Persons,
only three kinds of, 257;
two kinds of, know God, 288
Peter, St., 671, 743
Philosophers,
the, have confused ideas of things, 72;
influence of imagination upon, 82;
disquiet inquirers, 184;
made their ethics independent of the immortality of the soul,
219, 220;
have mastered their passions, 349;
believe in God without Christ, 463;
their motto, 464;
have consecrated vices, 503;
what they advise, 509;
did not prescribe suitable feelings, 524
Piety, different from superstition, 255
Pilate, the false justice of, 790
Plato, 219, 331
Poets, 34, 38, 39
Pope, the, 870, 871, 872, 873, 874, 879, 881
Port-Royal, 151, 838, 919
Prayer, why established, 513
Predictions
of particular things, 710;
of Cyrus, 712;
of events in the fourth monarchy, 723;
of the Messiah, 728, 730
Present, we do not rest satisfied with the, 172
Presumption of men, 148
Pride, 152, 153, 406
Probability, the Jesuitical doctrine of, 901, 907, 909, 912, 915, 916,
917, 919, 921
Proofs,
of religion, 289, 290;
metaphysical, of God, 542
Prophecies,
the, entrusted to the Jews, 570;
the strongest proof of Christ, 705;
necessarily distributed, 706;
about Christ, 709, 726, 730, 732, 735;
proofs of divinity, 712;
in Egypt, 725
Prophets,
the, prophesied by symbols, 652;
their discourses obscure, 658;
their meaning veiled, 677;
zeal after the, 702;
did not speak to flatter the people, 718;
foretold, 738
Propositions,
the five, 830, 849
Purgatory, 518
_Provincial Letters_, the, 52, 919
Pyrrhus, advice given to, 139
Rabbinism, chronology of, 634
Reason
and the imagination, 82;
and the senses, 83;
recognises an infinity of things beyond it, 267;
submission of, 268, 269, 270, 272;
the heart and, 277, 278, 282;
and instinct, 344, 395;
commands us imperiously, 345;
and the passions, 412, 413;
corruption of, 440
Reasoning, reduces itself to yielding to feeling, 274
Redemption,
the Red Sea an image of the, 642;
the completeness of the, 780
Religion,
its true nature and the necessity of studying it, 194;
sinfulness of indifference to it, 195;
whether certain, 234;
suited to all kinds of minds, 285;
true, 470, 494;
test of the falsity of a, 487;
two ways of proving its truths, 560;
the Christian, has something astonishing in it, 614;
the Christian, founded upon a preceding, 618;
reasons for preferring the Christian, 736;
three marks of, 843;
and natural reason, 902
Republic, the Christian, 482, 610
Rivers, moving roads, 17
Roannez, M. de, a saying of, 276
Rule, a, necessary to judge a work, 5
Sabbath, the, only a sign, 609
Sacrifices, of the Jews and Gentiles, 609
Salvation, happiness of those who hope for, 239
Scaramouch, 12
Scepticism, 373, 376, 378, 385, 392, 394;
truth of, 432;
chief arguments of, 434
Sciences, vanity of the, 67
Scripture,
and the number of stars, 266;
its order, 283;
has provided passages for all conditions of life, 531;
literal inspiration of, 567;
blindness of, 572;
and Mahomet, 597;
extravagant opinions founded on, 650;
how to understand, 683, 686;
against those who misuse passages of, 898
Self,
necessary to know, 66;
the little knowledge we have of, 175
Sensations, and molecules, 368
Senses,
perceptions of the, always true, 9;
perceive no extreme, 72;
mislead the reason, 83
Silence,
eternal, of infinite space, 206;
the greatest persecution, 919
Sin, original, 445, 446, 447
Sneezing, absorbs all the functions of the soul, 160
Soul,
immortality of the, 194, 219,
220; immaterial, 349
_Spongia solis_, 91
Stoics, the, 350, 360, 465
Struggle, the, alone pleases us, 135
Style, charm of a natural, 29
Swiss, the, 305
Symmetry, 28
Synagogue, the, a type, 645, 851
Talent, chief, 118
Temple, reprobation of the, 712
Testaments,
proof of the two, at once, 641;
proof that the Old is figurative, 658;
the Old and the New, 665
Theology, a science, 115
Theresa, St., 499, 867, 916
Thought,
one, alone occupies us, 145;
constitutes man's greatness, 346;
and dignity, 365;
sometimes escapes us, 370, 372
Time, effects of, 122, 123
Truth,
nothing shows man the, 83;
different degrees in man's aversion to, 100;
the pretext that it is disputed, 261;
known by the heart, 282;
we desire, 437;
here is not the country of, 842;
obscure in these times, 863
Types, 570, 642, 643, 644, 645, 656, 657, 658, 669, 674, 678, 686;
the law typical, 646, 684;
some, clear and demonstrative, 649;
particular, 651, 652, 653;
are like portraits, 676, 677;
the sacrifices are, 679, 684
Tyranny, 332
Understanding, different kinds of, 2
Universe,
the relation of man to the, 72;
his superiority to it, 347
Vanity,
is anchored in man's heart, 150;
effects of, 151, 153;
curiosity only, 152;
little known, 161;
love and, 162, 163;
only youths do not see the world's, 164
Variety, 114, 115
Vices, some, only lay hold on us through others, 102
Virtues,
division of, 20;
measure of, 352;
excess of, 353, 357;
only the balancing of opposed vices, 359;
the true, 485
Weariness,
in leaving favourite pursuits, 128;
nothing so insufferable to man as, 131
Will,
natural for the, to love, 81;
one of the chief factors in belief, 99;
self-, will never be satisfied, 472;
is depraved, 477;
God prefers to incline the, rather than the intellect, 580
Words,
and meanings, 23, 50;
repeated in a discourse, 48;
superfluous, 49, 59
Works,
necessity to do good, 497;
external, 499
World,
the, a good judge of things, 327;
all the, under a delusion, 335;
all the, not astonished at its own weakness, 314;
all good maxims are in the, 380;
the, exists for the exercise of mercy and judgment, 583
Transcribers' note
Text in greek transliterated and enclosed in '+' signs in the following
places: Pensées 70, 631 Footnote 231
Numbered anchors changed to letter anchors for the four footnotes in the
introduction.
All the notes at the end of the text were numbered and appropriate
anchors inserted in the text.
Note No. 54 on page 28 has the wrong line number and is positioned two
notes after where it should be. Corrected the position.
"judgment" was consistently used throughout the text.
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9 | 32 |"beauty whch consists" - Typo for "which". Corrected.
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37 | 121 |"that is infinite" - Added a period at the end of the
| |sentence.
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46 | 154 |Mismatched brackets in original text.
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75 | 260 |"youself" - corrected to "yourself".
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86 | 301 |"It is because they have more reason?" - As in image.
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129 | 463 |"feel ull of feelings" - Typo corrected to "feel full of
| |feelings".
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133 | 479 |"the worst that can can happen" - deleted one "can".
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134 | 484 |Supplied missing period at the end.
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158 | 570 |"those whose whose only good" - deleted one "whose"
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162 | 587 |"they come with wisdom and with signs." - Typo corrected
| |to "they come with wisdom and with signs."
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165 | 598 |"Jesus Christ caused His wn to be slain." - Typo
| |corrected to "Jesus Christ caused His own to be slain."
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170 | 612 |"Salutare taum expectabo, Domine." - As in image.
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181 | 641 |"but it they have" - Typo corrected to "but if they
| |have".
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282 | |Endnote 210. - "P. 158, l. 13. _Saint John_.--xii, 39."
| |-Corrected to ""P. 159, l. 13. _Saint John_.--xii, 39."
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286 | |Endnote 331. "_Though ye believe not_, ect.--John x, 38."
| |-Corrected to "_Though ye believe not_, etc.--John x, 38."