Chapman Cohen

Granting that an illusion may have its uses, it can only be of service so long as we do not know it to be an illusion.

Facts are more insistent than theories, and in the last resort it is the nature of things which determine the course of our actions.

Of the four terms ... Praise, Blame, Punishment, and Responsibility, the cardinal and governing one is the last.

Atheist is really ʺa thoroughly honest, unambiguous term,ʺ 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.