Albert Camus — "I would rather live my life as if there is a God, and die to find out there isn'…"
I would rather live my life as if there is a God, and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't, and die to find out there is.
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This is Pascal's Wager, often misattributed to Camus. Camus was an atheist.
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