What Gustave Le Bon thinks about taste
French social psychologist (1841 to 1931); author of The Crowd.
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1 dated position, c. 1895, in their own words. Our reading of what Gustave Le Bon has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingThe masses have never thirsted after truth and prefer a seductive error to unwelcome evidence
Their wordsThe masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them.
↗The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind (1895; English translation, 1896)gutenberg.org All 20 from this book