19 Quotes by Chapman Cohen

It’s usually easier to rouse stupidity to action than to arouse wisdom to effort, for wisdom sees alternatives while stupidity lacks the imagination to do this. All sinister interests in a country can depend ultimately upon the strength of stupidity.

Worship God. It’s easier than thinking.

We cannot start with God and deduce the universe from his existence; we must start with the world as we know it, and deduce God from the world.

Who knows the origin of religion? Certainly not the one who believes in it. Understanding and belief are quite antagonistic. The man who understands religion does not believe in it, the man who believes in it does not understand it.

Civilised man does not discover gods, he discards them.

All science is a search for the conditions that determine phenomena.

Atheism, the absence of belief in gods, is a comparatively late phenomenon in history.

The worst that one can say of the Christian clergyman today is that he actually believes what he teaches.

ATHEIST is really a thoroughly honest, unambiguous term; it admits of no paltering and of no evasion, and the need of the world, now as ever, is for clear-cut issues and unambiguous speech.