Adrift in Paradise

Our civil rights have no dependence upon our religious opinions, any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.

—Thomas Jefferson

No longer are we satisfied with the fiction of things. We want them in their full reality.

—Mikhail Bakunin

I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.

—Aleister Crowley

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

—Friedrich Nietzsche