{"id":855,"date":"2011-03-30T10:20:56","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T14:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/?p=855"},"modified":"2011-03-30T10:20:56","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T14:20:56","slug":"pascals-pensees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=855","title":{"rendered":"pascal&#8217;s pens\u00e9es"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{Blaise Pascal}}, the famous\u00a0mathematician, philosopher, and part-time theologian, is a fascinating member of history to me.<\/p>\n<p>Several years ago I borrowed a copy of his &#8220;{{Pens\u00e9es}}&#8221; from a friend, and skimmed it. At the time, I was impressed more with the randomness of the collection than with anything specific he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>A few days ago, I began re-reading the book from the free {{Kindle}} edition on my phone.<\/p>\n<p>There are far too many awesome quotes to repost them all here, but I have been heavily highlighting my digital edition for future reference, using in conversation, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Pens\u00e9es looks like a weird cross between 17th century twittering and a diary &#8211; but it&#8217;s well-worth the $0.00 investment to have a copy.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Writing style: 3\/5 &#8211; not something you &#8220;read&#8221; so much as &#8220;process&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Concision: 5\/5<\/li>\n<li>Overall: 4.5\/5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{Blaise Pascal}}, the famous\u00a0mathematician, philosopher, and part-time theologian, is a fascinating member of history to me. Several years ago I borrowed a copy of his &#8220;{{Pens\u00e9es}}&#8221; from a friend, and skimmed it. At the time, I was impressed more with the randomness of the collection than with anything specific he wrote. A few days ago, &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=855\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">pascal&#8217;s pens\u00e9es<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,7,31,38],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-commentary","category-personal","category-review"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=855"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}