Crowds are influenced mainly by images produced by the judicious employment of words and formulas

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 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.

A crowd is not merely impulsive and mobile. Like a savage, it is not prepared to admit that anything can come between its desire and the realisation of its desire.

In crowds it is stupidity and not mother wit that is accumulated.

The beginning of a revolution is in reality the end of a belief.

All the civilizations we know have been created and directed by small intellectual aristocracies, never by people in the mass. The power of crowds is only to destroy.

Are the worst enemies of society those who attack it or those who do not even give themselves the trouble of defending it?

If atheism spread, it would become a religion as intolerable as the ancient ones.

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 to resign ourselves to being devoured by them.

After the leaves have fallen, we returnTo a plain sense of things. It is as ifWe had come to an end of the imagination, Inanimate in an inert savoir.

And to my soul mate, who has been with me all along, but is absent from my side.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent conquer him with love.

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

I love the Internet, and I love wasting time on the Internet - even though it sometimes ends up being not being a waste of time.

Everything we do we should look at in terms of millions of people who can't afford it.

Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.

I can't trust the people I care about not to hurt me. And I'm not sure I can trust myself not to hurt them, either.

Like your weight set-point, which keeps the scale hovering around the same number, your happiness set-point will remain the same unless you make a concerted effort to change it.

I lost the plot for a while then. And I lost the subplot, the script, the soundtrack, the intermission, my popcorn, the credits, and the exit sign.