"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."

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Source : Gustave Le Bon (2009). “The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind”, p.137, The Floating Press

Gustave Le Bon

#Truth Quotes #Illusion Quotes #Victim Quotes

“I think I always play good, always played solid.”
“She killed Lorena in a fight?" Eric's grin grew even broader. He was as proud as if he'd heard his firstborn reciting Shakespeare.”
“There are three sides to every story: my side, your side, and the truth. And no one is lying. Memories shared serve each one differently.”
“Some people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the words on the page, they don't understand that the words are merely stepping stones placed across a fast-flowing river, and the reason they're there is so that we can reach the farther shore, it's the other side that matters.”
“It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the characters”
“Happiness is the harvest of a quiet mind. Anchor your thoughts on peace, poise, security and divine guidance and your mind will be productive of happiness.”

Source : Joseph Murphy (2013). “The Power of your Subconscious Mind and Other Works”, p.164, Simon and Schuster
“I'm believe that countries and people make choices for themselves about what science they accept or don't accept. And it should be fact based, so they understand [the science] and make those decisions.”

Source : "Five Questions with DuPont CEO Ellen Kullman". Interview with Bryan Walsh, time.com. February 14, 2014.
“Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing of forces on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening. With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into one desperate effort to see and touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch.”

Source : Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry”, p.154, Courier Corporation

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