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Pascal: Passages on Key Themes (a selection by no means complete). By fragment number, with page numbers in parentheses where necessary. Especially striking passages bolded. (Pensées, Krailsheimer, 1995)

1. The greatness and wretchedness of man: 48 (absurd god, ridiculous hero), 122, 149, 215 (Christianity knows man), 352, 354, 398, 401, 427 (131-`132), 430, 434, 442, 443, 449 (142), 470, 477, 613

2. Human nature: 200 (thinking reed), 24, 44 (12, last two paragraphs), 45, 75, 78, 101, 119, 125-126 (habit, custom), 129, 131 (33-36, man’s dual nature, original sin), 148, 210, 397, 419, 421, 519, 595, 597, 605, 616-617, 620, 621, 627, 630, 638-639, 641, 661, 678 (angel nor beast), 681, 695 (original sin), 806, 821

3. Other evidences of the duality (the dual, paradoxical, even contradictory nature) of man: 26 (greatness founded on weakness), 118, 210-211 (system of charity based on concupiscence), 410, 519 (mechanisms in the head touching opposites), 619, 629, 632, 633, 640 (joy at failure), 674, 688 (what is the self?)

4. The disproportion of man (man between the infinites, relativity of the human condition): 21, 41, 68 (the groundlessness of my being), 194, 198, 199 (59-65), 201, 418 (121), 400, 427 (130), 697, 699, 723

5. The corruption of nature: 201, 463, 471 (nature points at every turn to a God who has been lost), 660

6. The relativity of justice, customary morality, social order: 35 (contingency of choice of vocation), 51, 60 (16-17), 66, 81, 85, 86, 90, 103, 211, 634, 645, 711

7. Diversion, Boredom, Death: 36, 132-133, 136 (37-41), 386, 414, 428 (133-134), 622, 640 (pleased at failure), 773

8. The heart (and also instinct and intuition) versus reason: 423-424, 112, 128, 406, 511-512 (esprit de geométrie et esprit de finesse), 513, 646

9. The hidden God, Christ the mediator, man’s relation to God: 189, 190, 192, 239, 281-284, 351, 378, 416-417, 427 (131), 449 (deism versus the Christian God), 468, 607, 776

10. Faith, revelation, reason, and its limits: 167, 170, 172-177, 182, 183, 188, 617, 12, 687 (study of man), 690, 808, 809