708 Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Some say that gleams of a remoter world Visit the soul in sleep, that death is slumber,And that its shapes the busy thoughts outnumberOf those who wake and live.

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

You ought not to love the individuals of your domestic circle less, but to love those who exist beyond it more. Once make the feelings of confidence and of affection universal, and the distinctions of property and power will vanish; nor are they to be abolished without substituting something equivalent in mischief to them, until all mankind shall acknowledge an entire community of rights.

We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts have their root in Greece

Equality in possessions must be the last result of the utmost refinements of civilization; it is one of the conditions of that system of society towards which, with whatever hope of ultimate success, it is our duty to tend.

The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed:

Frente a dos proposiciones diametralmente opuestas, el cerebro cree la menos incomprensible: es más fácil suponer que el universo ha existido por toda la eternidad que concebir a un ser eterno con la capacidad de crearlo.

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.

I could not choose but gaze; a fascinationDwelt in that moon, and sky, and clouds