Gustave Le Bon Quotes
- If atheism spread, it would become a religion as intolerable as the ancient ones.
- The role of the scholar is to destroy chimeras, that of the statesman is to make use of them.
- Science has promised us truth...It has never promised us either peace or happiness.
- The beginning of a revolution is in reality the end of a belief.
- The precise moment at which a great belief is doomed is easily recognizable; it is the moment when its value begins to be called into…
- The art of those who govern consists above all in the science of employing words.
- Crowds are somewhat like the sphinx of ancient fable: It is necessary to arrive at a solution of the problems offered by their psychology or…
- The greater part of our daily actions are the result of hidden motives which escape our observation.
- The conscious life of the mind is of small importance in comparison with its unconscious life.
- 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…
- 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…