The Pensees (literally, "thoughts") represented a defense of

the Christian religion by Blaise Pascal, the renowned 17th century philosopher

and mathematician. Pascal's religious conversion led him into a life of

asceticism, and the Pensees was in many ways his life's work."Pascal's

Wager" is found here. The Pensees is in fact a name given posthumously to

his fragments, which he had been preparing for an Apology of Christian

Religion which was never completed.

— Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.