Pensées is a collection of French Philosopher Blaise Pascal’s arguments defending the Christian faith. Published in 1669 as Thoughts (Pensées), they have exerted a powerful intellectual influence ever since. Pascal denied that the tenets of faith must be rational, and that human reason can prove the existence of God, as some thinkers of his time argued. Rather, he held that God is beyond human understanding and that man has no assurance of meaningfulness in the universe asi