Since the Creator had made the facts of the after-life inaccessible to man, He must not have required that man understand death… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Any government which made the welfare of men depend on the character of their governors was an illusion. — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
The hero was distinguished by his achievement; the celebrity by his image or trademark. The hero created himself; the celebrity is created… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
The institutional scene in which American man has developed has lacked that accumulation from intervening stages which has been so dominant a… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Formerly, a public man needed a private secretary for a barrier between himself and the public. Nowadays he has a press secretary,… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Jefferson refused to pin his hopes on the occasional success of honest and unambitious men; on the contrary, the great danger was… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
History had been man's effort to accomodate himself to what he could not do. Amereican history in the 20th century would, more… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
The star is the ultimate American verification of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Emile. His mere existence proves the perfectability of any man or woman.… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
The variety of minds served the economy of nature in many ways. The Creator, who designed the human brain for activity, had… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Probably no one of us has the True Religion. But all of us together - if we are allowed to be free… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
The most refined skills of color printing, the intricate techniques of wide-angle photography, provide us pictures of trivia bigger and more real… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Beware of charisma . . . Representative Men; was Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1850 phrase for the great men in a democracy .… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
The improved American highway system isolated the American-in-transit. On his speedway he had no contact with the towns which he by-passed. If he stopped… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share
Modern tourist guides have helped raised tourist expectations. And they have provided the natives- from Kaiser Wilhelm down to the villagers of Chichacestenango -… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share
Each living art object, taken out of its native habitat so we can conveniently gaze at it, is like an animal in a zoo.… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share
Probably no one of us has the True Religion. But all of us together - if we are allowed to be free - are… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share
An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share
[The Library of Congress] is a multimedia encyclopedia. These are the tentacles of a nation. — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share
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 Copy Share
Not so many years ago there was no simpler or more intelligible notion than that of going on a journey. Travel -movement through space… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share
The computer can help us find what we know is there. But the book remains our symbol and our resource for the unimagined question… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share
In fast-moving, progress-conscious America, the consumer expects to be dizzied by progress. If he could completely understand advertising jargon he would be badly disappointed.… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share
Being known primarily for their well-knownness, celebrities intensify their celebrity images simply by becoming widely known for relations among themselves. By a kind of… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share
While the focus in the landscape of Old World cities was commonly government structures, churches, or the residences of rulers, the landscape and the… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share
In the small town each citizen had done something in his own way to build the community. The town booster had a vision of… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share
Any government which made the welfare of men depend on the character of their governors was an illusion. — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share
