Pens�es (Polis & Praxis Gray Series)

"All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone." Blaise Pascal

In Pensées, Blaise Pascal dissects the anatomy of modern anxiety. Centuries before the invention of the screen, this seventeenth-century mathematician recognized that our endless pursuit of entertainment, status, and busyness is nothing but a frantic flight from our own mortality.

His fragmentary masterpiece of cynical observation and moral philosophy uses sharp aphorisms and clinical logic to...