The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.
Daniel Boorstin quote The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.
Daniel Boorstin quote The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises.
Daniel Boorstin quote 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 Boorstin quote 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 Boorstin quote The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.
Daniel Boorstin quote As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.
Daniel Boorstin quote A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well.
Daniel Boorstin quote Biography
Lived 1914+, US Historian
