السهولة التي تنتشر فيها بعض الآراء وتصبح عامة تعود بشكل خاص إلى عجز معظم الناس عن تشكيل رأي خاص مستوحى من تجاربهم الشخصية في المحاكمة والتعقل.


Gustave Le Bon

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GUSTAVE MEYRINK
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the b...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of t...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attra...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract.
GUSTAVE MOREAU
I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instructio...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times and intense ...
GUSTAVE COURBET
No one could have less faith in the absolute and definitive importance of the work created by man, b...
GUSTAVE MOREAU
Of all lies, art is the least untrue.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent. We must not touch...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it i...
GUSTAVE COURBET
As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed it.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidit...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in you...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
...exaggerated turns of speech conceal mediocre affections: as if the fulness of the soul might not ...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
A child of my own! Oh, no, no, no! Let my flesh perish with me, and let me not transmit to anyone th...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Exuberance is better than taste.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism; it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that wha...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Fine art is knowledge made visible.
GUSTAVE COURBET
The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
What is beautiful is moral; that is all there is to it.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Happy are they who don't doubt themselves and whose pens fly across the page. I myself hesitate, I f...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
By dint of railing at idiots you run the risk of becoming idiotic yourself
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
You must not think that feeling is everything. . . . Art is nothing without form.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Exuberance is better than taste
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Books are made not like children but like pyramids and they're just as useless! And they stay in the...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
. . . human speech is like a cracked tin kettle, on which we hammer out tunes to make bears dance wh...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. . . I believe the greate...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
The artist ought no more to appear in his work than God in nature.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed at
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when h...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Success is a result, not a goal
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Human speech is like a cracked cauldron on which we bang out tunes that make bears dance, when what ...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
How you measure the performance of your managers directly affects the way they act.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and exist...
GUSTAVE COURBET
Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
He seriously thought that there is less harm in killing a man than producing a child: in the first c...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establ...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota.
GUSTAVE COURBET
Are the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you, too? When it is misty, in the evenings, and I a...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse ...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts ...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal...
GUSTAVE COURBET
Painting is the representation of visible forms. . . The essence of realism is its negation of the i...
GUSTAVE COURBET
Madame Bovary is myself.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Is it not time to cry that the blind shall see, the deaf hear, the lame walk? But that which fanatic...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
(Egypt) is a great place for contrasts: splendid things gleam in the dust.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
To be simple is no small matter.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Sentences must stir in a book like leaves in a forest, each distinct from each despite their resembl...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Writing is a dog’s life, but the only one worth living.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people ar...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Había un no sé qué de vertiginoso que Emma sentía llegar hasta sí, como una emanación de aquel...
FLAUBERT GUSTAVE
Before a Parisienne in lace, in the salon of some illustrious physician, a person of importance with...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Well," he said, "don't you know that there are souls forever in torment? They must have alternate dr...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I p...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
It is an excellent habit to look at things as so many symbols.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Abstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange intelligence.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
I believe in the Supreme Being, in a Creator, whatever he may be. I care little who has placed us he...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Before her marriage she had thought that she had love within her grasp; but since the happiness whic...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
He was bored now when Emma suddenly began to sob on his breast; and his heart, like the people who c...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
[T]he truth is that fullness of soul can sometimes overflow in utter vapidity of language, for none ...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Doesn't it seem to you," asked Madame Bovary, "that the mind moves more freely in the presence of th...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
After the pain of this disappointment her heart once more stood empty, and the succession of identic...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
And she felt as though she had been there, on that bench, for an eternity. For an infinity of passio...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
La parole humaine est comme un chaudron fêlé où nous battons des mélodies à faire danser les ou...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
She loved the sea for its storms alone, cared for vegetation only when it grew here and there among ...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
She was the amoureuse of all the novels, the heroine of all the plays, the vague “she” of all th...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Haven't you ever happened to come across in a book some vague notion that you've had, some obscure i...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
The denigration of those we love always detaches us from them in some degree. Never touch your idols...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
I'm absolutely removed from the world at such times...The hours go by without my knowing it. Sitting...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
She would have liked not to be alive, or to be always asleep.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
But, in her life, nothing was going to happen. Such was the will of God! The future was a dark corri...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
She was not happy--she never had been. Whence came this insufficiency in life--this instantaneous tu...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Everything, even herself, was now unbearable to her. She wished that, taking wing like a bird, she c...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Deep down, all the while, she was waiting for something to happen. Like a sailor in distress, she ke...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Love, she thought, must come suddenly, with great outbursts and lightnings,--a hurricane of the skie...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
You forget everything. The hours slip by. You travel in your chair through centuries you seem seem t...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
At the bottom of her heart, however, she was waiting for something to happen. Like shipwrecked sailo...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
He had carefully avoided her out of the natural cowardice that characterizes the stronger sex.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
I go from exasperation to a state of collapse, then I recover and go from prostration to Fury, so th...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
A los ídolos es mejor no tocarlos porque algo de la pintura dorada que los recubría se nos queda s...
FLAUBERT GUSTAVE
Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opin...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
The melancholy of the antique world seems to me more profound than that of the moderns, all of whom ...
FLAUBERT GUSTAVE
She was as sated with him as he was tired of her. Emma had rediscovered in adultery all the banality...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
He had the vanity to believe men did not like him – while men simply did not know him.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
How badly arranged the world is. What is the purpose of ugliness, suffering, sadness? Why our powerl...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
In the dark room a cloud of yellow dust flew from beneath the tool like a scatter of sparks from und...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT