Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes about Atheism

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

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

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Atheist, Atheism, Facts

"Selected Essays on Atheism".

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

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Atheist, Religion, Atheism

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

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Men, Religion, Atheism

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Richard Herne Shepherd (1810). “The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley ... Ed. ... by Richard Herne Shepherd”, p.326

It is only by hearsay (by word of mouth passed down from generation to generation) that whole peoples adore the God of their fathers and of their priests: authority, confidence, submission and custom with them take the place of conviction or of proofs: they prostrate themselves and pray, because their fathers taught them to prostrate themselves and pray: but why did their fathers fall on their knees?

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Father, Fall, Atheism

Percy Bysshe Shelley (2015). “The Necessity of Atheism”, p.8, Booklassic

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

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Passion, Mind, Atheism

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1874). “The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.26

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

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Love, Atheism, Principles

Had this author [Sir W Drummond Academical Questions, chap. iii.], instead of inveighing against the guilt and absurdity of atheism, demonstrated its falsehood, his conduct would have, been more suited to the modesty of the skeptic and the toleration of the philosopher.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Guilt, Atheism, Modesty

Percy Bysshe Shelley (2015). “The Necessity of Atheism”, p.12, Booklassic

Whatever may be his true and final destination, there is a spirit within him at enmity with nothingness and dissolution. This is the character of all life and being.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Character, Being Positive, Atheism

Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.1820, Delphi Classics