I write to discover what I think
Daniel J. Boorstin[Reading is like] the sex act—done privately, and often in bed.
Daniel J. BoorstinThe greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
Daniel J. BoorstinTags: knowledge ignorance misattributed-stephen-hawking
A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.
Daniel J. BoorstinTags: books
No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.
Daniel J. BoorstinWhen I was living in England I found that the more I lived abroad, the more American I discovered I was.
Daniel J. BoorstinEducation is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
Daniel J. BoorstinWhen we pick up the newspaper at breakfast, we expect - we even demand - that it brings us momentous events since the night before...We expect our two-week vacations to be romantic, exotic, cheap, and effortless..We expect anything and everything. We expect the contradictory and the impossible. We expect compact cars which are spacious; luxurious cars which are economical. We expect to be rich and charitable, powerful and merciful, active and reflective, kind and competitive. We expect to be inspired by mediocre appeals for excellence, to be made literate by illiterate appeals for literacy...to go to 'a church of our choice' and yet feel its guiding power over us, to revere God and to be God. 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 expected so much more than the world could offer.
Daniel J. BoorstinTags: angst expectations modernity
A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services
Daniel J. BoorstinA best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well.
Daniel J. BoorstinTags: bestseller
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