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| Blaise Pascal, mathematician, tax farmer-collector, philosopher |
"God
is, or He is not"
A
Game is being played... where heads or tails will turn up.
According
to reason, you can defend either of the propositions.
You
must wager. (It's not optional.)
Let
us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is. Let us
estimate these two chances. If you gain, you gain all; if you lose,
you lose nothing.
Wager,
then, without hesitation that He is. (...) There is here an infinity
of an infinitely happy life to gain, a chance of gain against a
finite number of chances of loss, and what you stake is finite. And
so our proposition is of infinite force, when there is the finite to
stake in a game where there are equal risks of gain and of loss, and
the infinite to gain...
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