Wagers Quotes

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If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible, since, having, neither parts nor limits, He has no affinity to us. We are then incapable… — Blaise Pascal
I have always considered "Pascal's Wager" a questionable bet to place. Any God worth "believing in" would surely prefer an honest agnostic to a calculating… — Alan Dershowitz
When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on. — Henry Fielding
If those arrangements [the fundamental arrangements of knowledge] were to disappear as they appeared... then one can certainly wager that man would be erased, like… — Michel Foucault
I would wager that my job has helped save our economy from the economic ravages of out-of-control environmental extremism. I view my job a little… — Roy Spencer
Wagers and pacts are made with angels - or with devils. — Paulo Coelho
Let us weigh the gain and the loss, in wagering that God is. Consider these alternatives: if you win, you win all, if you lose… — Blaise Pascal
He is no true reader who has not experienced the reproachful fascination of the great shelves of unread books, of the libraries at night of… — George Steiner
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… — Greg Egan
CEMETERY, n. An isolated suburban spot where mourners match lies, poets write at a target and stone-cutters spell for a wager. — Ambrose Bierce
To marry a woman you love and who loves you is to lay a wager with her as to who will stop loving the other… — Alfred Capus
Faith is a free surrenderand a joyous wager on the unseen, unknown, untested goodness of God. — Martin Luther
A first novel of astonishing force, craft and beauty, The Headmaster's Wager conjures up a dizzyingly evocative wartime Saigon in the story of Percival Chen,… — Janice Y. K. Lee
Surfing also teaches quality . I will wager that it is not the number of waves that makes a session memorable for any given surfer,… — Shaun Tomson
I would wager that the number of civilians that were killed [in] a typical week under Saddam Hussein was probably more than we killed during… — Bill Maher
Creating a family in this turbulent world is an act of faith, a wager that against all odds there will be a future, that love… — Dean Koontz
All the time, I've felt that life is a wager and that I probably was getting more out of leading a bohemian existence as a… — Christopher Hitchens
I'm not resigned, but I'm realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to… — Christopher Hitchens
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… — Blaise Pascal
If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists. — Blaise Pascal

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