The masses have never thirsted after truth. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.
The images evoked by words being independent of their sense, they vary from age to age and from people to people, the formulas remaining identical. C… - Gustave Le Bon
The images evoked by words being independent of their sense, they vary from age to age and from people to people, the formulas remaining identical. C…
- Gustave Le Bon
At the bidding of a Peter the Hermit millions of men hurled themselves against the East; the words of an hallucinated enthusiast such as Mahomet crea… - Gustave Le Bon
At the bidding of a Peter the Hermit millions of men hurled themselves against the East; the words of an hallucinated enthusiast such as Mahomet crea…
The real cause of the great upheavals which precede changes of civilisations, such as the fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of the Arabian Empire… - Gustave Le Bon
The real cause of the great upheavals which precede changes of civilisations, such as the fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of the Arabian Empire…
Science has promised us truth...It has never promised us either peace or happiness. - Gustave Le Bon
Science has promised us truth...It has never promised us either peace or happiness.
If atheism spread, it would become a religion as intolerable as the ancient ones. - Gustave Le Bon
If atheism spread, it would become a religion as intolerable as the ancient ones.
We see, then, that the disappearance of the conscious personality, the predominance of the unconscious personality, the turning by means of suggestio… - Gustave Le Bon
We see, then, that the disappearance of the conscious personality, the predominance of the unconscious personality, the turning by means of suggestio…
The role of the scholar is to destroy chimeras, that of the statesman is to make use of them. - Gustave Le Bon
The role of the scholar is to destroy chimeras, that of the statesman is to make use of them.
The beginning of a revolution is in reality the end of a belief. - Gustave Le Bon
The beginning of a revolution is in reality the end of a belief.
Crowds are influenced mainly by images produced by the judicious employment of words and formulas - Gustave Le Bon
Crowds are influenced mainly by images produced by the judicious employment of words and formulas
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