God is a hypothesis, and, as such, stands in need of proof; the onus probandi rests on the theist.
Percy Bysshe ShelleyWar is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
Percy Bysshe ShelleyIt is vain philosophy that supposes more causes than are exactly adequate to explain the phenomena of things.
Percy Bysshe ShelleyIt were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its color and odor, as seek to transfuse from one language into another the creations of a poet. The plant must spring again from its seed, or it will bear no flower -- and this is the burthen of the curse of Babel.
Percy Bysshe Shelley