Quotes Tagged With :pascal

I have always considered "Pascal's Wager" a questionable bet to place, since any God worth believing....

There is a wide yawning black infinity. In every direction the extension is endless, the sensation of....

There are three sources of belief: reason, custom, inspiration.

We are talking about a bet, remember, and Pascal wasn't claiming that his wager enjoyed anything but....

I suspect you're thinking of Pascal,' Finkler said, finally.'Only he said the opposite. He said you might....

Fire. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars. I will not....

Maybe it is like Pascal's Wager, but I want to believe in the immortality of the soul because consciousness....

—Pascal, if I remember rightly, would not suffer his mother to kiss him as he feared the contact of....

There is something distinctly odd about the argument, however. Believing is not something you can decide....

Men are so inevitably mad that not to be mad would be to give a mad twist to madness.