Eliot praises Pascal as one of the best Christian writers for those who doubt, and who feel the mystery of life and suffering

Quotes from and comments on TS Eliot's essay "The Pensees of Pascal" (published 1951, written 1935 or earlier)

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Quotes from Eliot's Essay:
Montaigne "succeeded in giving expression to the scepticism of every human being. For every man who thinks and lives by thought must have his own scepticism, that which stops at the question, that which ends in denial, or that which leads to faith and which is somehow integrated into the faith which transcends it. And Pascal, as the type of one kind of religious believer, which is highly passionate and ardent, but passionate only through a powerful and regulated intellect, is in the first sections of his unfinished Apology for Christianity facing unflinchingly the demon of doubt which is inseparable from the spirit of belief."

"But I can think of no Christian writer, not Newman even, more to be commended than Pascal to those who doubt, but who have the mind to conceive, and the sensibility to feel, the disorder, the futility, the meaninglessness, the mystery of life and suffering, and who can only find peace through a satisfaction of the whole being."

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TS Eliot in 1934, by Lady Ottoline Morrell (1873–1938) derivative work: Octave.H - Thomas Stearns Eliot with his sister and his cousin by Lady Ottoline Morrell.jpg, Public Domain, [ Ссылка ]

Blaise Pascal, Public Domain, [ Ссылка ]

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