Gustave Le Bon - Mind Quotes

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Affirmation pure and simple, kept free of all reasoning and all proof, is one of the surest means of making an idea enter the mind of crowds.

Gustave Le Bon

The improbable does not exist for a crowd, and it is necessary to bear this circumstance well in mind to understand the facility with which are created and propagated the most improbable legends and stories.

Gustave Le Bon

Logical minds, accustomed to being convinced by a chain of somewhat close reasoning, cannot avoid having recourse to this mode of persuasion when addressing crowds, and the inability of their arguments always surprises them.

Gustave Le Bon

A person is not religious solely when he worships a divinity, but when he puts all the resources of his mind, the complete submission of his will, and the whole-souled ardour of fanaticism at the service of a cause or an individual who becomes the goal and guide of his thoughts and actions.

Gustave Le Bon

Science has promised us truth — an understanding of such relationships as our minds can grasp; it has never promised us either peace or happiness.

Gustave Le Bon

The conscious life of the mind is of small importance in comparison with its unconscious life.

Gustave Le Bon