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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.

The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ignorance, Study, Funny Exam
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1824). “Posthumous Poems”, p.367

In proportion to the love existing among men, so will be the community of property and power. Among true and real friends, all is common; and, were ignorance and envy and superstition banished from the world, all mankind would be friends. The only perfect and genuine republic is that which comprehends every living being. Those distinctions which have been artificially set up, of nations, societies, families, and religions, are only general names, expressing the abhorrence and contempt with which men blindly consider their fellowmen.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Life, Real, Ignorance
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1988). “Shelley's Prose: Or the Trumpet of a Prophecy”

What is life? Thoughts and feelings arise, with or without our will, and we employ words to express them. We are born, and our birth is unremembered and our infancy remembered but in fragments. We live on, and in living we lose the apprehension of life. How vain is it to think that words can penetrate the mystery of our being. Rightly used they may make evident our ignorance of ourselves, and this is much.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ignorance, Thinking, Feelings
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “Essays, letters from abroad, translations and fragments, ed. by mrs. Shelley”, p.177

God is represented as infinite, eternal, incomprehensible; he is contained under every predicate in non that the logic of ignorance could fabricate.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ignorance, Logic, Infinite
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.85, Wordsworth Editions

Among true and real friends, all is common; and were ignorance and envy and superstition banished from the world, all mankind would be friend.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Friends, Real, Ignorance

Contemporary criticism only represents the amount of ignorance genius has to contend with. . . . Time will reverse the judgement of the vulgar.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ignorance, Judgement, Criticism

It is thus that the generality of mankind, whose lot is ignorance, attributes to the Divinity, not only the unusual effects which strike them, but moreover the most simple events, of which the causes are the most simple to understand by whomever is able to study them. In a word, man has always respected unknown causes, surprising effects that his ignorance kept him from unraveling. It was on this debris of nature that man raised the imaginary colossus of the Divinity.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ignorance, Simple, Men
Percy Bysshe Shelley (2015). “The Necessity of Atheism”, p.7, Booklassic

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