That very quote
is in the wikipedia article about Pascal's Wager that I just went and looked up.
(Mr._Pickles, Sun 22 Mar 2009, 13:13, 1 reply)

Ah yes, here it is (from Hogfather)
A philosopher claimed, "Possibly the gods exist, and possibly they do not. So why not believe in them in any case? If it's all true you'll go to a lovely place when you die, and if it isn't then you've lost nothing, right?" When the philosopher died, "he woke up in a circle of gods holding nasty-looking sticks and one of them said, 'We're going to show you what we think of Mr Clever Dick in these parts...'"

Brilliant.
(Zem flolloping floopily around Squornshellous Zeta, Sun 22 Mar 2009, 13:36, closed)