Word: pascale
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...particularly excites them, existentialism-especially that of the early Camus-comes closest. But some professors have profound doubts as to whether young Americans really understand what existentialism is all about. A Princeton professor recently told a student: "Your generation hasn't the foggiest conception of existentialism. Kierkegaard and Pascal seem merely to be chic in cocktail conversation...
Krishnamurti has written a sensitive and thoughtful book, setting his philosophy in beautiful glimpses of Indian life. His ideas are presented in short sketches reminiscent of Kafka's parables or Pascal's "Pensees." But his advice seems better suited to the Indian peasant plowing a lonely field behind a bony ox than to the American audience for whim he writes...
Louis XIV ruled an empire on which the sun quickly set, but its literary lights -Corneille, Racine, Pascal, La Fontaine-still glow. Among them was Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sévigné, whom generations of critics have crowned "the queen of letter writers." In this selection of 272 out of many hundreds of De Sévigné letters, the diadem seems to have its fair share of paste jewels, but it is worn with a regal flourish and idiosyncratic authority...
...Monaco was spiritually run down," he said recently. That was putting it mildly. Prince Rainier was often in the company of Gisele Pascal, a French actress. A mayor of Monte Carlo had married a former Sister of Charity who had nursed him in the hospital. The clergy were quarreling among themselves. The bishop of Monaco, a Frenchman, did not get along with his Italian priests...
Concludes Tillich, "Against Pascal I say: The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and the God of the philosophers is the same God. He is a person and the negation of himself as a person. Faith comprises both itself and the doubt of itself . . . To live serenely and courageously in these tensions and to discover finally their ultimate unity in the depths of our own souls and in the depth of the divine life is the task and the dignity of human thought...