All Daniel J. Boorstin Quotes
- A celebrity is a person known for his well-knownness. Celebrities intensify their celebrity images simply by being well known for relations among themselves. By a… Among
- Until now when we have started to talk about the uniqueness of America we have almost always ended by comparing ourselves to Europe. Toward her… All
- 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… Answer
- There's something beautifully soothing about a fact — even (or perhaps especially) if we're not sure what it means. Beautifully
- 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… Age
- Americans expect to eat and stay thin, to be constantly on the move and ever more neighborly ... to revere God and be God. Americans
- Never have people been more the masters of their environment. Yet never has a people felt more deceived and disappointed. For never has a people… Been
- Best-sellerism is the star system of the book world. A "best seller" is a celebrity among books. It is a book known primarily (sometimes exclusively)… Among
- It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world. Exaggerating
- Each living art object, taken out of its native habitat so we can conveniently gaze at it, is like an animal in a zoo. Something… Animal
- 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… Barrier
- The traveler used to go about the world to encounter the natives. A function of travel agencies now is to prevent this encounter. Agencies
- Of all the nations in the world, the United States was built in nobody's image. It was the land of the unexpected, of unbounded hope,… All
- Disagreement produces debate but dissent produces dissension. Dissent (which come from the Latin, dis and sentire) means originally to feel apart from others. People who… Apart
- 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 for… American
- In the small town each citizen had done something in his own way to build the community. The town booster had a vision of the… Booster
- The American experience stirred mankind from discovery to exploration. From the cautious quest for what they knew (or thought they knew) was out there, into… American
- 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. Angle
- Dispersed as the Jews are, they still form one nation, foreign to the land they live in. Dispersed
- [The Library of Congress] is a multimedia encyclopedia. These are the tentacles of a nation. Congress
- Standing, standing, standing - why do I have to stand all the time? That is the main characteristic of social Washington. All
- In the twentieth century our highest praise is to call the Bible 'The World's Best Seller.' And it has come to be more and more… Best
- The image is made to order, tailored to us. An ideal, on the hand, has a claim on us. It does not serve us, we… Assume
- The fog of information can drive out knowledge. Drive
- There is no known device for artistic contraception. Artistic