Introducer Thomas R. Nevin is a professor of classical studies at John Carroll University and the author of Simone Weil: Portrait of a Self-Exiled Jew.
“A book of Pascalian pensees, touching on many phases of the
intellectual and spiritual worlds. Written in prose which is as
unadorned as a geometry theorem, it bears clear personal traces of
the young genius who was half icy intellectual, half mystic.”—New
York Times
“In these private reflections, at once pregnant and precise, and
all springing out of painful depths of experience, mental pride is
transmuted into spiritual insight.”—Manchester Guardian
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