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Daniel Boorstin

Daniel Boorstin Quotes

Total quotes: 3

Daniel Boorstin

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Total quotes: 3

“Try always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and to alter my desires rather than change the order of the world, and generally to accustom myself to believe that there is nothing entirely in our own power but our own thoughts.”

— Daniel Boorstin, The Seekers

Tagged: Life

“The question, 'Is it real?' is less important than, 'Is it newsworthy?”'”

— Daniel Boorstin, The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America

Tagged: Media, Simulacrum

“If we are awed by the powers of man, the learned animal, we must also be appalled that he has been such a slow learner. And there has been no greater obstacle to his learning than the stock of accumulated learning that he has made from himself with his illusions of knowledge.”

— Daniel Boorstin, The Seekers

Tagged: Life

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