Daniel J. Boorstin Quotes

When they built this building they were afraid to say that beauty is truth for fear that it wouldn't be by the time it was completed. - Daniel J. Boorstin

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

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

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

We expect to eat and stay thin, to be constantly on the move and ever more neighbourly . . . to revere God and to be God. - Daniel J. Boorstin

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities. - Daniel J. Boorstin

The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event. - Daniel J. Boorstin

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

The most refined skills of color printing, the intricate techniques of wide-angle photography, provide us pictures of trivia bigger and more real than life. We forget that we see trivia and notice only that the reproduction is so good. Man fulfils his dream and by photographic magic produces a precise image of the Grand Canyon. The result is not that he adores nature or beauty the more. Instead he adores his camera -- and himself. - Daniel J. Boorstin

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