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...on

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

Pensées, section 14, appendix, polemical fragment 895

...on

If God does not exist, one will lose nothing by believing in him, while if he does exist, one will lose everything by not believing.

Pensées (3:233), “Of the Necessity of the Wager,” pp. 213-216 – “Pascal’s Wager”

– “Pascal’s Wager”

...on

God is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and circumference is nowhere.

as quoted in Huberman, The Quotable Atheist, p. 236

...on

The heart has its reasons that reason does not know.

Pensées (4:277), p. 222, in the original French, “Le coeur a ses raisons, que la raison ne connaît pas.”