Atheism Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley

In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

As belief is a passion of the mind, no degree of criminality is attachable to disbelief.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

It is among men of genius and science that atheism alone is found.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

In fact, the truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Religion! but for thee, prolific fiend, Who peoplest earth with demons, hell with men, And heaven with slaves!

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“God is an hypothesis, and, as such, stands in need of proof: the onus probandi rests on the theist.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

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

Ah! what a divine religion might be found out if charity were really made the principle of it instead of faith.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

Here I swear, and as I break my oath may ... eternity blast me, here I swear that never will I forgive…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

Had this author [Sir W Drummond Academical Questions, chap. iii.], instead of inveighing against the guilt and absurdity of atheism, demonstrated its…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

I was an infant when my mother went To see an atheist burned. She took me there. The dark-robed priests were met…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

It is only by hearsay (by word of mouth passed down from generation to generation) that whole peoples adore the God of…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“If he is infinitely good, what reason should we have to fear him? If he is infinitely wise, why should we have…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Human vanity is so constituted that it stiffens before difficulties. The more an object conceals itself from our eyes, the greater the…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

It is thus that the generality of mankind, whose lot is ignorance, attributes to the Divinity, not only the unusual effects which…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley