It is among men of genius and science that atheism alone is found. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The crime of inquiry is one which religion never has forgiven. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Religion! but for thee, prolific fiend, Who peoplest earth with demons, hell with men, And heaven with slaves! — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Dust to the dust! but the pure spirit shall flow Back to the burning fountain whence it came, A portion of the… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
A God made by man undoubtedly has need of man to make himself known to man. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“Hence all original religions are allegorical, or susceptible of allegory, and, like Janus, have a double face of false and true” — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Ah! what a divine religion might be found out if charity were really made the principle of it instead of faith. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine, In one spirit meet and mingle-Why not I with thine? — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
If a person's religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Know ye what it is to be a child? It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of baptism;… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The nature of a narrow and malevolent spirit is so essentially incompatible with happiness as to render it inaccessible to the influences… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Swiftly walk o'er the western wave, Spirit of Night! Out of the misty eastern cave, Where, all the long and lone daylight,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Religion pervades intensely the whole frame of society, and is according to the temper of the mind which it inhabits, a passion,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
And Spring arose on the garden fair, Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere; And each flower and herb on Earth's dark… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
When you can discover where the fresh colors of the faded flower abide, or the music of the broken lyre, seek life… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Narrow The heart that loves, the brain that contemplates, The life that wears, the spirit that creates One object, and one form,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Whatever may be his true and final destination, there is a spirit within him at enmity with nothingness and dissolution. This is… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Christianity indeed has equaled Judaism in the atrocities, and exceeded it in the extent of its desolation. Eleven millions of men, women,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The day becomes more solemn and serene When noon is past; there is a harmony In autumn, and a lustre in its… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Spirit of BEAUTY, that dost consecrate With thine own hues all thou dost shine upon Of human thought or form, where art… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
No mistake is more to be deplored than the conception that a system of morals and religion should derive any portion of… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“Whatever may be his [man's] true and final destination, there is a spirit within him at enmity with nothingness and dissolution (change… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Know what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of today. It is… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“SWIFTLY walk o'er the western wave, Spirit of Night! Out of the misty eastern cave,-- Where, all the long and lone daylight,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Whatever strengthens and purifies the affections, enlarges the imagination, and adds spirit to sense, is useful. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I arise from dreams of thee, And a spirit in my feet Has led me- who knows how? To thy chamber-window, Sweet! — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
It is easier to suppose that the universe has existed for all eternity than to conceive a being beyond its limits capable… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“There was a Being whom my spirit oft Met on its visioned wanderings far aloft. A seraph of Heaven, too gentle to… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
And priests dare babble of a God of peace, Even whilst their hands are red with guiltless blood, Murdering the while, uprooting… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The same means that have supported every other popular belief have supported Christianity. War, imprisonment, and falsehood; deeds of unexampled and incomparable… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The everlasting universe of things Flows through the mind, and rolls its rapid waves, Now dark--now glittering--now reflecting gloom-- Now lending splendour, where from… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share
“Though we eat little flesh and drink no wine, Yet let's be merry; we'll have tea and toast; Custards for supper, and an endless… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share
Titles are tinsel, power a corrupter, glorya bubble, and excessive wealth a libel on its possessor. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share
“Poets and philosophers are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share
Dar'st thou amid the varied multitude To live alone, an isolated thing? — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share
Spirit of BEAUTY, that dost consecrate With thine own hues all thou dost shine upon Of human thought or form, where art thou gone?… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share
I love tranquil solitude, And such society As is quiet, wise, and good; Between thee and me What difference? but thou dost possess The… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share
The practice of utter sincerity towards other men would avail to no good end, if they were incapable of practising it towards their own… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share
Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebb and flow claspest the limits of mortality. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share
Senseless is the breast and cold Which relenting love would fold; Bloodless are the veins and chill Which the pulse of pain did fill;… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share
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