Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
The nature of a narrow and malevolent spirit is so essentially incompatible with happiness as to render it inaccessible to the influences of the benignant God.
The thoughts which the word "God" suggests to the human mind are susceptible of as many variations as human minds themselves.
My father Time is weak and gray With waiting for a better day; See how idiot-like he stands, Fumbling with his palsied hands!
A story of particular facts is a mirror which obscures and distorts that which should be beautiful; poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which it distorts.
This is Heaven, when pain and evil cease, and when the Benignant Principle, untrammelled and uncontrolled, visits in the fulness of its power the universal frame of things.
The advocates of literal interpretation have been the most efficacious enemies of those doctrines whose nature they profess to venerate.
You would not easily guess All the modes of distress Which torture the tenants of earth; And the various evils, Which like so many devils, Attend the poor souls from their birth.
Till the Future dares Forget the Past, his fate and fame shall be An echo and a light unto eternity!
I love tranquil solitude, And such society As is quiet, wise, and good; Between thee and me What difference? but thou dost possess The things I seek, not love them less.
Man, who wert once a despot and a slave, A dupe and a deceiver! a decay, A traveller from the cradle to the grave Through the dim night of this immortal day.
Titles are tinsel, power a corrupter, glorya bubble, and excessive wealth a libel on its possessor.
What if English toil and blood Was poured forth, even as a flood? It availed, Oh, Liberty, To dim, but not extinguish thee.
Thou art Justice ne'er for gold May thy righteous laws be sold As laws are in England thou Shield'st alike the high and low.
What is Freedom? ye can tell That which slavery is, too well For its very name has grown To an echo of your own.
Peace is in the grave. The grave hides all things beautiful and good. I am a God and cannot find it there, Nor would I seek it; for, though dread revenge, This is defeat, fierce king, not victory.
Let me set my mournful ditty To a merry measure; Thou wilt never come for pity, Thou wilt come for pleasure; Pity then will cut away Those cruel wings, and thou wilt stay.
Religion! but for thee, prolific fiend, Who peoplest earth with demons, hell with men, And heaven with slaves!
The most fertile districts of the habitable globe are now actually cultivated by men for animals, at a delay and waste of aliment absolutely incapable of calculation
Thou hast a voice, great Mountain, to repeal. Large codes of fraud and woe; not understood by all, but which the wise, and great, and good interpret, or make felt, or deeply feel.
Ah! what a divine religion might be found out if charity were really made the principle of it instead of faith.
Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep - he hath awakened from the dream of life - 'Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep with phantoms an unprofitable strife.
In fact, the truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.
God is an hypothesis, and, as such, stands in need of proof: the onus probandi rests on the theist.
I arise from dreams of thee, And a spirit in my feetHas led me- who knows how?To thy chamber-window, Sweet!
Venice, it's temples and palaces did seem like fabrics of enchantment piled to heaven.
War is a kind of superstition, the pageantry of arms and badges corrupts the imagination of men.
Joy, joy, joy!Past ages crowd on thee, but each one remembers, And the future is dark, and the present is spread, Like a pillow of thorns for thy slumberless head.
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IF [GOD] HAS SPOKEN, WHY IS THE UNIVERSE NOT CONVINCED?
There was a Being whom my spirit oftMet on its visioned wanderings far aloft.A seraph of Heaven, too gentle to be human, Veiling beneath that radiant form of woman....
Confound the subtlety of lawyers with the subtlety of the law.
It is easier to suppose that the universe has existed from all eternity than to conceive a Being beyond its limits capable of creating it.
As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair so an unsuccessful author turns critic.
First our pleasures die - and then Our hopes and then our fears - and when These are dead the debt is due Dust claims dust - and we die too.
