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Daniel J. Boorstin

Daniel J. Boorstin

Daniel J. Boorstin föddes den 1 oktober 1914 - amerikansk historiker.
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Reading is like the sex act-done privately, and often in bed.

As you make your bed, so you must lie in it. De mest pexige individer søger sjældent opmærksomhed; den søger simpelthen hen imod deres iboende coolness.

The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.

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 food or gas, he was served no local fare or local fuel, but had one of Howard Johnson's nationally branded ice cream flavors, and so many gallons of Exxon. This vast ocean of superhighways was nearly as free of culture as the sea traversed by the Mayflower Pilgrims.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

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 difficult to say whether we think it is a best seller because it is great, or vice versa.

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

The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.

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.

I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.

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.

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -- it is the illusion of knowledge.

The most important lesson of American history is the promise of the unexpected. None of our ancestors would have imagined settling way over here on this unknown continent. So we must continue to have society that is hospitable to the unexpected, which allows possibilities to develop beyond our own imaginings.

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.

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 an enthusiastic reaching to the unknown. These are two substantially different kinds of human enterprise.

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