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> [“Hitler kept the truth from his servile masses. Instead of intellectual persuasion he gave them emotional suggestion.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marc-bloch/hitler-kept-the-truth-from-his-servile-masses-instead-of-intellectual/)

[Marc Bloch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marc-bloch/)

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## More by Marc Bloch

> [History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marc-bloch/history-is-in-its-essentials-the-science-of-change-it-knows-and-it/)

[Marc Bloch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marc-bloch/)

> [The ABC of our profession is to avoid these large abstract terms in order to try to discover behind them the only concrete realities,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marc-bloch/the-abc-of-our-profession-is-to-avoid-these-large-abstract-terms-in/)

[Marc Bloch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marc-bloch/)

> [“Similarly, when it is not the past that we are studying, but some set of phenomena relating to a principle still active, we expect…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marc-bloch/similarly-when-it-is-not-the-past-that-we-are-studying-but-some-set/)

[Marc Bloch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marc-bloch/)

> [The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marc-bloch/the-good-historian-is-like-the-giant-of-the-fairy-tale-he-knows-that/)

[Marc Bloch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marc-bloch/)

> [“Hitler kept the truth from his servile masses. Instead of intellectual persuasion he gave them emotional suggestion.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marc-bloch/hitler-kept-the-truth-from-his-servile-masses-instead-of-intellectual/)

[Marc Bloch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marc-bloch/)

> [ “When it is a question of ascertaining whether or not some human act has really taken place, \[historians\] cannot be too painstaking. If they… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marc-bloch/when-it-is-a-question-of-ascertaining-whether-or-not-some-human-act/)

[Marc Bloch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marc-bloch/)

> [“The very names we use to describe ancient ideas or vanished forms of social organization would be quite meaningless if we had not known…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marc-bloch/the-very-names-we-use-to-describe-ancient-ideas-or-vanished-forms-of/)

[Marc Bloch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marc-bloch/)

> [The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marc-bloch/the-historian-is-by-definition-absolutely-incapable-of-observing-the/)

[Marc Bloch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marc-bloch/)

> [“No doubt they thought that by allowing themselves to become martyrs to their nerves they were giving proof of a fine stoicism, just as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marc-bloch/no-doubt-they-thought-that-by-allowing-themselves-to-become-martyrs/)

[Marc Bloch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marc-bloch/)

> [But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marc-bloch/but-history-is-neither-watchmaking-nor-cabinet-construction-it-is-an/)

[Marc Bloch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marc-bloch/)

> [Thenceforth they thought that, rationally concluded, doubt could become an instrument of knowledge.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marc-bloch/thenceforth-they-thought-that-rationally-concluded-doubt-could-become/)

[Marc Bloch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marc-bloch/)

> [The nature of our intelligence is such that it is stimulated far less by the will to know than by the will to understand.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marc-bloch/the-nature-of-our-intelligence-is-such-that-it-is-stimulated-far-less/)

[Marc Bloch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marc-bloch/)

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