Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes About Genius

Quotes about: Genius

• 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

• Every fanatic or enemy of virtue is not at liberty to misrepresent the greatest geniuses and most heroic defenders of all that is valuable in this mortal world.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Atheist, Enemy, Liberty

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1859). “Shelley Memorials: From Authentic Sources : Now First Printed”, p.274

• Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and of the human frame A mechanized automaton.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Men, Genius, Pestilence

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1829). “The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume”

• 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

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