That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most
intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
-Edgar Allan Poe
yes, there is a Poe condemning all religion as fraud,
imagination et al, too .. i can't source either of them ..
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”