Thoughts - Pensées

The Pensées (''Thoughts'') is a collection of fragments written by the French 17th-century philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal. Pascal''s religious conversion led him into a life of asceticism, and the Pensées was in many ways his life''s work. It represented Pascal''s defense of the Christian religion, and the concept of ''Pascal''s wager'' stems from a portion of this work.