How long does it take to read Pensées?
Blaise Pascal, Philippe Sellier, William Finlayson Trotter, T. S. Eliot, Blaise Perier, Margival Henri, H. F. Stewart
Pensées by Blaise Pascal, Philippe Sellier, William Finlayson Trotter, T. S. Eliot, Blaise Perier, Margival Henri, H. F. Stewart takes about 6 hours 27 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 27 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1670. 352 pages, about 96,800 words.
13 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours 45 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 27 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 2 minutes |
The page count is the median across 395 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"Blaise Pascal, the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, was a gifted mathematician and physicist, but it is his unfinished apologia for the Christian religion upon which his reputation now rests. The Pensees is a collection of philosophical fragments, notes and essays in which he explores the contradictions of human nature in psychological, social, metaphysical and, above all, theological terms. Mankind emerges from Pascal's analysis as a wretched and desolate creature within an impersonal universe, but also as a being whose existence can be transformed through faith in God's grace. This masterly translation conveys Pascal's disarmingly personal tone and captures all the fire and passion of the original. Also contained in this volume are a comparison between different editions, appendices and a bibliography.". - Back Cover.
Subjects: Apologetic works, Apologetics, Apologétique, Auteurs catholiques, Catholic Church, Catholic Church - Apologetic works
