Daniel J. Boorstin Quotes - Page 3

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• There is no disinfectant like success.

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  Success

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• God is the celebrity author of the world's best seller. We have made god into the biggest celebrity of all, to contain our own emptiness.

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  Atheism, World, Emptiness

  Daniel J. Boorstin (2012). “The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America”, p.183, Vintage

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• Creators, makers of the new, can never become obsolete, for in the arts there is no correct answer. The story of discoverers could be told in simple chronological order, since the latest science replaces what went before. But the arts are another story- a story of infinite addition. We must find order in the random flexings of the imagination.

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  Art, Creativity, Simple

  Daniel J. Boorstin (2012). “The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination”, p.16, Vintage

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• Not so many years ago there was no simpler or more intelligible notion than that of going on a journey. Travel -movement through space -provided the universal metaphor for change. One of the subtle confusions -perhaps one of the secret terrors -of modern life is that we have lost this refuge. No longer do we move through space as we once did.

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  Life, Change, Travel

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• An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service.

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  Design, Personality, Corporations

  Daniel J. Boorstin (1962). “The Image or What Happened to the American Dream”

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• Books are messengers of freedom. They can be hidden under a mattress or smuggled into slave nations.

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  Book, Messengers, Slave

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• There is no known device for artistic contraception.

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  Artistic, Devices, Contraception

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• A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.

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  Book, Reading, Library

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• Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands.

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  Vivid, Moral, Persuasive

  Daniel J. Boorstin (2012). “The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America”, p.48, Vintage

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• The hero was a big man; the celebrity is a big name.

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  Hero, Men, Names

  Daniel J. Boorstin (2012). “The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America”, p.61, Vintage

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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.

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  God, Responsibility, Interesting

  Daniel J. Boorstin (2012). “The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America”, p.8, Vintage

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• While knowledge is orderly and cumulative, information is random and miscellaneous.

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  Knowledge, Information, Miscellaneous

  "Gresham's Law: Knowledge or Information?". Daniel J. Boorstin's remarks at the White House conference on library and information services in Washington, D.C., November 19, 1979.

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• Where ruts have not yet been worn, it requires less effort to stay out of them.

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  Worn It, Effort, Ruts

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• The cities of Italy are now deluged with droves of these creatures [tour groups], for they never separate, and you see them, forty in number, pouring along a street with their director - now in front, now at the rear, circling them like a sheep dog - and really the process is as like herding as may be.

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  Dog, Sheep, Cities

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• 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 serve it. If we have trouble striding toward it, we assume the matter is with us, and not the ideal.

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  Hands, Order, Doe

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• The Republic of Technology where we will be living is a feedback world.

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  Technology, World, Republic

  "The Republic of Technology: Reflections on our Future Community" by Daniel J. Boorstin, Harper-Collins, (p. 9), 1978.

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• Since the Creator had made the facts of the after-life inaccessible to man, He must not have required that man understand death in order to live fruitfully.

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  Men, Order, Facts

  Daniel J. Boorstin (1993). “The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson”, p.262, University of Chicago Press

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• Modern tourist guides have helped raised tourist expectations. And they have provided the natives- from Kaiser Wilhelm down to the villagers of Chichacestenango - with a detailed and itemized list of what is expected of them and when. These are the up-to-date scripts for actors on the tourists' stage.

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  Travel, Expectations, Tourism

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• 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 newspaper!'

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  Reading, World, Dull

  Daniel J. Boorstin (2012). “The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America”, p.7, Vintage

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• The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.

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  Events, World, Lasts

  Daniel J. Boorstin (2012). “The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America”, p.254, Vintage

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• Any government which made the welfare of men depend on the character of their governors was an illusion.

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  Character, Men, Illusion

  "The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson" by Daniel J. Boorstin, University of Chicago Press, Ch. 4, (p. 178), 1993.

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• 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 novelty than there is, more greatness than there is, and more strangeness than there is, we imagine ourselves masters of a plastic universe. But a world we can shape to our will is a shapeless world.

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  Greatness, Exaggeration Is, Imagination

  Daniel J. Boorstin (1978). “The Image”

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• Reading is like the sex act - done privately, and often in bed.

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  Sex, Reading, Bed

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• While the easiest way in metaphysics is to condemn all metaphysics as nonsense, the easiest way in morals is to elevate the common practice of the community into a moral absolute.

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  Practice, Community, Way

  Daniel J. Boorstin (1993). “The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson”, p.111, University of Chicago Press

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• There's something beautifully soothing about a fact — even (or perhaps especially) if we're not sure what it means.

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  Mean, Reality, Facts

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