"Even if it were proven that God didn’t exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine." ― Charles Baudelaire Topic(s): Religion More From Charles Baudelaire "It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish." "Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction." "Nature… is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest." More In Religion "It is, then, by those shadows of the hoary Past and their fantastic silhouettes on the external screen of every religion and philosophy, that we can, by checking them as we go along, and comparing them, trace out finally the body that produced them."― H. P. Blavatsky "In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal."― Carol P. Christ "It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late."― Pearl S. Buck