Pascal S Wager Quotes

#1. Maybe it is like Pascal's Wager, but I want to believe in the immortality of the soul because consciousness is such a fantastic gift that is feels cruel and unfair to end it so quickly.

Thomm Quackenbush

#2. You know what they say the modern version of Pascal's Wager is? Sucking up to as many Transhumanists as possible, just in case one of them turns into God.

Greg Egan

#3. I have always considered "Pascal's Wager" a questionable bet to place, since any God worth believing in would prefer an honest agnostic to a calculating hypocrite.

Alan M. Dershowitz

#4. If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exsists.

Blaise Pascal

#5. One day the play ends and the screen goes blank. There is nothing. Everything returns to its original formlessness - and then another dream begins.

Frederick Lenz

#6. Trella! You're here," he said with glee.
"Even though I'm not as smart as you, I do know where I am.

Maria V. Snyder

#7. We are supposed to do our fallible, failing best to perceive the other bad people as kin.

Francis Spufford

#8. As Blaise Pascal put it in his famous wager: "You have to wager. It is not up to you, you are already committed."7 You can't not bet your life on something. You can't not be headed somewhere. We live leaning forward, bent on arriving at the place we long for.

James K.A. Smith

#9. God is or He is not. But to which side shall we incline? Let us weigh the gain and the lose in wagering that God is. Let us estimate the two changes. If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, lose nothing. Wager then without any hesitation that He is

Blaise Pascal

#10. Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Blaise Pascal

#11. At the far end of this infinite distance a coin is being spun which will come down heads or tails. How will you wager? Reason cannot make you choose either, reason cannot prove either wrong.

Blaise Pascal

#12. Let us weigh up the gain and the loss involved in calling heads that God exists. Let us assess the two cases: if you win you win everything, if you lose you lose nothing. Do not hesitate then; wager that he does exist.

Blaise Pascal

#13. This is my password," said the King as he drew his sword. "The light is dawning, the lie broken. Now guard thee, miscreant, for I am Tirian of Narnia.

C.S. Lewis

#14. I suspect you're thinking of Pascal,' Finkler said, finally.'Only he said the opposite. He said you might as well wager on God because that way, even if He doesn't exist, you've nothing to lose. Whereas if you wager against God and He does exist ... '
'You're in the shit.

Howard Jacobson

#15. We are talking about a bet, remember, and Pascal wasn't claiming that his wager enjoyed anything but very long odds. Would you bet on God's valuing dishonestly faked belief (or even honest belief) over honest scepticism?

Richard Dawkins

#16. A lot of attention has been going to social values - abortion, gay rights, other divisive issues - but economic values are equally important.

Robert Reich