originated with French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal, whose Pensées (1670) was a collection of some 800 to 1,000 notes and manuscript fragments expressing his religious beliefs.I am borrowing the name for his collection and not a jot of his beliefs. This blog will be the notes and fragments expressing my own religious journeys and musings. I expect it will be fun and somewhat irreverent.
Monday, March 16, 2009
pensée is French for pansy . . .
According to Encyclopædia Britannica, the term pensée
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A penny for your thoughts about this Pensée of Blaise Pascal.
ReplyDeleteThe evil of religious conviction is real (there is a history) but it should not cause me to cower into my own corner of the universe.
ReplyDeleteO love is the crooked thing,
There is nobody wise enough
To find out all that is in it,
For he would be thinking of love
Till the stars had run away
And the shadows eaten the moon.
Ah, penny, brown penny, brown penny,
One cannot begin it too soon.
Correction Peripatos -
ReplyDeleteThe evil of *some* religious convictions is real
BTW It occurs to me that pansy is the English bastardization of pensée rather than the reverse.