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Daniel J Boorstin Quotes

We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman Picture Quote #1
We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place Picture Quote #1
There's something beautifully soothing about a fact - even (or perhaps especially) if we're not sure what it means Picture Quote #1
Americans expect to eat and stay thin, to be constantly on the move and ever more neighborly... to revere God and be God Picture Quote #1
What is more natural in a democratic age than that we should begin to measure the stature of a work of art - especially of a painting - by how widely and how well it is reproduced? Picture Quote #1
Each living art object, taken out of it's native habitat so we can conveniently gaze at it, is like an animal in a zoo. Something about it has died in the removal Picture Quote #1
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A sign of a celebrity is often that his name is worth more than his services Picture Quote #1
Formerly, a public man needed a private secretary for a barrier between himself and the public. Nowadays he has a press secretary, to keep him properly in the public eye Picture Quote #1
The traveler used to go about the world to encounter the natives. A function of travel agencies now is to prevent this encounter Picture Quote #1
The traditional novel form continues to enlarge our experience in those very areas where the wide-angle lens and the cinema screen tend to narrow it Picture Quote #1
It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world Picture Quote #1
What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not a power but an image Picture Quote #1
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No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever Picture Quote #1
Water, that wonderful, flowing medium, the luck of the planet - which would serve humankind in so many ways, and which would give our planet a special character Picture Quote #1
When I was living in England I found that the more I lived abroad, the more American I discovered I was Picture Quote #1
Climaxing a movement for calendar reform which had been developing for at least a century, in 1582 Pope Gregory ordained that October 4 was to be followed by October 15 Picture Quote #1
An enamored amateur need not be a genius to stay out of the ruts he has never been trained in Picture Quote #1
Throught human history, illusions of knowledge, not ignorance, have proven to be the principal obstacles to discovery Picture Quote #1
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The computer can help us find what we know is there. But the book remains our symbol and our resource for the unimagined question and the unwelcome answer Picture Quote #1
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We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman  (Daniel J Boorstin Quotes) We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place  (Daniel J Boorstin Quotes) There's something beautifully soothing about a fact - even (or perhaps especially) if we're not sure what it means  (Daniel J Boorstin Quotes) Americans expect to eat and stay thin, to be constantly on the move and ever more neighborly... to revere God and be God  (Daniel J Boorstin Quotes) What is more natural in a democratic age than that we should begin to measure the stature of a work of art - especially of a painting - by how widely and how well it is reproduced?  (Daniel J Boorstin Quotes) Each living art object, taken out of it's native habitat so we can conveniently gaze at it, is like an animal in a zoo. Something about it has died in the removal  (Daniel J Boorstin Quotes) A sign of a celebrity is often that his name is worth more than his services  (Daniel J Boorstin Quotes) Formerly, a public man needed a private secretary for a barrier between himself and the public. Nowadays he has a press secretary, to keep him properly in the public eye  (Daniel J Boorstin Quotes) The traveler used to go about the world to encounter the natives. A function of travel agencies now is to prevent this encounter  (Daniel J Boorstin Quotes) The traditional novel form continues to enlarge our experience in those very areas where the wide-angle lens and the cinema screen tend to narrow it  (Daniel J Boorstin Quotes) It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world  (Daniel J Boorstin Quotes) What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not a power but an image  (Daniel J Boorstin Quotes) No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever  (Daniel J Boorstin Quotes) Water, that wonderful, flowing medium, the luck of the planet - which would serve humankind in so many ways, and which would give our planet a special character  (Daniel J Boorstin Quotes) When I was living in England I found that the more I lived abroad, the more American I discovered I was  (Daniel J Boorstin Quotes) Climaxing a movement for calendar reform which had been developing for at least a century, in 1582 Pope Gregory ordained that October 4 was to be followed by October 15  (Daniel J Boorstin Quotes) An enamored amateur need not be a genius to stay out of the ruts he has never been trained in  (Daniel J Boorstin Quotes) Throught human history, illusions of knowledge, not ignorance, have proven to be the principal obstacles to discovery  (Daniel J Boorstin Quotes) The computer can help us find what we know is there. But the book remains our symbol and our resource for the unimagined question and the unwelcome answer  (Daniel J Boorstin Quotes)
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