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Quotations by author » Daniel J. Boorstin
American social historian and educator, 1914
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The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes "sight-seeing."
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The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.
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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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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.
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We expect to eat and stay thin, to be constantly on the move and ever more neighbourly . . . to revere God and to be God.
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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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We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even eager - to discover, from the announcement of a new product, what we have all along wanted without really knowing it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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