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“Hitler kept the truth from his servile masses. Instead of intellectual persuasion he gave them emotional suggestion.” quote by Marc Bloch — Download Open image

““Hitler kept the truth from his servile masses. Instead of intellectual persuasion he gave them emotional suggestion.””

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History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are…

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The ABC of our profession is to avoid these large abstract terms in order to try to discover behind them the only concrete realities,…

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“Similarly, when it is not the past that we are studying, but some set of phenomena relating to a principle still active, we expect…

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The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his…

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“When it is a question of ascertaining whether or not some human act has really taken place, [historians] cannot be too painstaking. If they…

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“The very names we use to describe ancient ideas or vanished forms of social organization would be quite meaningless if we had not known…

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The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines.

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“No doubt they thought that by allowing themselves to become martyrs to their nerves they were giving proof of a fine stoicism, just as…

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But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding.

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Thenceforth they thought that, rationally concluded, doubt could become an instrument of knowledge.

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The nature of our intelligence is such that it is stimulated far less by the will to know than by the will to understand.

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“As long as the acquisition of knowledge is rendered habitually repugnant, so long will there be a prevailing tendency to discontinue it when free…

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“The fact that the stupid person is often stubborn must not blind us to the fact that he is not independent. In conversation with him, one virtually feels that one is dealing not at all with him as a person, but with slogans, catchwords, and the like that have taken possession of him. He is under a spell, blinded, misused,…

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“Smart shaming affects society at large by advertising mediocrity, villainizing the intelligent, and idolizing the foolish.”

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“Sonnet 1106 When an expert doesn't know something, They say, "I don't know", without tricks. But an armchair intellectual knows it all, Tiktok and Insta are their clinics. An expert's worth remains the same, with or without Tiktok and Insta. Armchair intellectuals are here today gone tomorrow, with the tiniest algorithm change of social media. My work will continue, with…

“And I wonder, therefore, how James Atlas can have been so indulgent in his recent essay ‘The Changing World of New York Intellectuals.’ This rather shallow piece appeared in the New York Times magazine, and took us over the usual jumps. Gone are the days of Partisan Review , Delmore Schwartz, Dwight MacDonald etc etc. No longer the tempest of…

Christopher Hitchens

“...the danger that American society as a whole will over-esteem intellect or assign it such a transcendent value as to displace other legitimate values…

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“It is a new Declaration of Independence: No longer do we hold these truths to be self-evident, we hold all truths to be self-evident,…

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“She feared long words she did not understand. Beelzebub lay hid among too many syllables.”

Algernon Blackwood

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“What they produce is not culture but a population allergic to logic, addicted to drama, and proud of their own mental stagnation. In the…

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