Belief in god Quote by Richard Dawkins

“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…

— Alan Dershowitz

“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…

— Howard Jacobson

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…

— Greg Egan

“What Pascal overlooked was the hair-raising possibility that God might out-Luther Luther. A special area in hell might be reserved for those who go…

— Walter Kaufmann

“Essentially, Doctor Pascal's only faith was his faith in life. Life was the unique manifestation of the divine. Life was God, the great motive…

— Émile Zola

“God is a sore loser. Me and him made a bet, and when he lost, he refused to pay up.”

— Lionel Suggs

“There is a remarkable sentence of Pascal according to which we know too little to be dogmatists and too much to be skeptics, which…

— Leo Strauss

“To most people God is an inference, not a reality. He is a deduction from evidence which they consider adequate; but He remains personally…

— A.W. Tozer

The Christian religion, [Pascal] claims, teaches two truths: that there is a God who men are capable of knowing, and that there is an…

— William Lane Craig

Let us weigh the gain and the loss, in wagering that God is. Consider these alternatives: if you win, you win all, if you…

— Blaise Pascal

What Pascal said of an effective religion is true of any effective doctrine: it must be "contrary to nature, to common sense and to…

— Eric Hoffer

“...it was better to believe in God and to be wrong than to believe that there was no God and to be right.”

— Foreli Kramarik