Editing Pensées (section)

==Reception and legacy==
German philosopher [[Martin Heidegger]] was influenced by Pascal's ''Pensées''. During the 1920s Heidegger kept photograph of Pascal's [[death mask]] in his study room.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Panella |first1=Luigi |title=Understanding Existence. Heidegger Reader of Pascal |journal=[[Studia Heideggeriana]] |date=2024 |volume=XIII |pages=29-38 |url=https://philpapers.org/rec/PANUEH}}</ref> Pascal is mentioned in the introduction (and quoted in two footnotes) of his 1927 work ''[[Being and Time]]''.<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Rand |editor1-first=Richard |title=Of Jacques Derrida |date=2001 |publisher=Stanford University Press |page=243}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Philipse |first1=Herman |title=Heidegger's Philosophy of Being A Critical Interpretation |date=2021 |publisher=Princeton University Press |page=224}}</ref> In recent times scholars have noted parallels between Heidegger and ''Pensées'', while postulating various instances of influence.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Steiner |first1=George |title=Martin Heidegger With a New Introduction |date=1991 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |page=74}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Wrathall |first1=Mark A. |title=The Revealed Word and World Disclosure: Heidegger and Pascal on the Phenomenology of Religious Faith |journal=Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology |date=2006 |volume=37 |issue=1 |pages=75-88 |doi=10.1080/00071773.2006.11006564 |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00071773.2006.11006564}}</ref>

[[Phenomenology (philosophy)|Phenomenological]] [[value theory|value theorists]], particularly [[Max Scheler]], have been influenced by the book.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Clemons |first1=Matthew |title=Pascal’s “Order of the Heart” in Phenomenological Value-Theory |journal=Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia |date=2023 |volume=79 |issue=4 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/27312062}}</ref>

[[Jean Paul Sartre]] read ''Pensées'' as a youth and his own publications and notebooks reflect the influence of the ''Pensées''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kirkpatrick |first1=Kate |title=Sartre on Sin: Between Being and Nothingness |date=2017 |publisher=Oxford University Press |pages=40-42}}</ref>

[[Friedrich Nietzsche]]'s relationship to Pascal and the ''Pensées'' was ambivalent. He thought Pascal "the most instructive victim of Christianity" and expressed his "love" of him "since he has enlightened me infinitely: the only logical Christian". Although as an anti-Christian Nietzsche was highly critical of the Christian parts of the ''Pensées'', he did find his psychological and social observations astute.<ref>{{cite book |author1=Brendan Donnellan |author1-link=IX. “The Only Logical Christian”: Nietzsche’s Critique of Pascal |title=Studies in Nietzsche and the Judaeo-Christian Tradition |date=1985 |publisher=University of North Carolina Press |pages=161-176 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469656557_oflaherty.12}}</ref>