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.

Gustave Le Bon (7 May 1841 – 13 December 1931) was a leading French polymath whose areas of interest included anthropology, psychology, sociology, medicine, invention, and physics.

Quotes

  • Islam, from among all religions, best suits the science discoveries and is the most ready to edify souls and force them to abide by justice, kindness and toleration.
    • The World of Islamic Civilization (La Civilisation des Arabes, 1884).
  • 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.
  • "Their philosophical daring remains unequalled to this day; indeed, one has to admit that, 2,000 years ago, India had begun pondering on the great issues which have been raised in the West only in within the last century, and that, in doing so, it did not shrink from the most drastic solution."
Conservative philosophers
FranceBainville • Bonald • Chateaubriand • Guénon • Le Bon • Lévy • Maistre • Rivarol • Taine • Tocqueville • Zemmour
Germany & AustriaHamann • Hegel • Herder • Hoppe • Jünger • Kuehnelt-Leddihn • Novalis • Röpke • Schmitt • Spengler • Strauss
United KingdomBelloc • Burke • Carlyle • Chesterton • Coleridge • Hitchens • Hume • Johnson • Lewis • More • Newman • Oakeshott • Scruton
USA & CanadaBabbitt • Buckley, Jr. • Burnham • Grant • Huntington • Kirk • Mansfield • Peterson • Santayana • Sowell • Viereck • Voegelin • Weaver
OtherCortés • Dávila • Dostoevsky • Dugin • Evola • Hazony • Karamzin • Pareto • Solzhenitsyn
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