Pascal's Wager

Tonight is a simple post of a philosophy of one of my favorite writers, Blaise Pascal: A revolutionary French intellectual who stood firmly on the fact that a belief in a God, though seemingly pointless at times, may be an endlessly beneficial sacrifice.

"God is, or He is not"
A game is being played... where heads or tails will turn up.
According to reason, you can defend neither of the propositions.
You must wager. It is not optional.
Your reason is no more shocked in choosing one rather than the other, since you must of necessity choose.
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 an eternity of life and happiness (to gain if correct)
There is here an infinity (length) of an infinitely happy life to gain, a chance of gain
A finite number of chances of loss
What you stake is finite
When one is forced to play, he must renounce reason to preserve his life
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."