All Daniel J. Boorstin Quotes
- There is no disinfectant like success. Disinfectant
- Nothing is really real unless it happens on television. Happens
- There was a time when the reader of an unexciting newspaper would remark, 'How dull is the world today!' Nowadays he says, 'What a dull… Dull
- History had been man's effort to accomodate himself to what he could not do. Amereican history in the 20th century would, more than ever before,… Ability
- An enamored amateur need not be a genius to stay out of the ruts he has never been trained in. Amateur
- Probably no one of us has the True Religion. But all of us together - if we are allowed to be free - are discovering… All
- By reading we discover our world, our history, and ourselves. Discover
- Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire PR officers. Achieve
- Throught human history, illusions of knowledge, not ignorance, have proven to be the principal obstacles to discovery Discovery
- It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world. Expecting more… Exaggerating
- 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