Top 70 Daniel J. Boorstin Quotes (2024 Update)
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$Daniel J. Boorstin Quote: “Historians will not fail to note that a people who could spend $300 billion on defense refused to spend a tiny fraction of that total to keep their libraries open in the evening.”$

51. “Historians will not fail to note that a people who could spend $300 billion on defense refused to spend a tiny fraction of that total to keep their libraries open in the evening.”

— Daniel J. Boorstin

Daniel J. Boorstin Quote: “American civilization, from its beginnings, had combined a dogmatic confidence in the future with a naive puzzlement over what the future might bring.”

52. “American civilization, from its beginnings, had combined a dogmatic confidence in the future with a naive puzzlement over what the future might bring.”

— Daniel J. Boorstin

Daniel J. Boorstin Quote: “The image is made to order, tailored to us. An ideal, on the hand, has a claim on us. It does not serve us, we serve it. If we have trouble striding toward it, we assume the matter is with us, and not the ideal.”

53. “The image is made to order, tailored to us. An ideal, on the hand, has a claim on us. It does not serve us, we serve it. If we have trouble striding toward it, we assume the matter is with us, and not the ideal.”

— Daniel J. Boorstin

Daniel J. Boorstin Quote: “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.”

54. “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.”

— Daniel J. Boorstin

Daniel J. Boorstin Quote: “Jeffersonian isolationism expressed an essentially cosmopolitan spirit. The Jeffersonian was determined – even at the expense of separating himself from the rest of the globe, and even though he be charged with provincial selfishness – to preserve America as an uncontaminated laboratory.”

55. “Jeffersonian isolationism expressed an essentially cosmopolitan spirit. The Jeffersonian was determined – even at the expense of separating himself from the rest of the globe, and even though he be charged with provincial selfishness – to preserve America as an uncontaminated laboratory.”

— Daniel J. Boorstin

Daniel J. Boorstin Quote: “When the necessary eleven days were added, George Washington’s birthday, which fell on February 11, 1731, Old Style, became February 22, 1732, New Style.”

56. “When the necessary eleven days were added, George Washington’s birthday, which fell on February 11, 1731, Old Style, became February 22, 1732, New Style.”

— Daniel J. Boorstin

Daniel J. Boorstin Quote: “In the small town each citizen had done something in his own way to build the community. The town booster had a vision of the future which he tried to fulfill. The suburb dweller by contrast started with the future.”

57. “In the small town each citizen had done something in his own way to build the community. The town booster had a vision of the future which he tried to fulfill. The suburb dweller by contrast started with the future.”

— Daniel J. Boorstin

Daniel J. Boorstin Quote: “What is more natural in a democratic age than that we should begin to measure the stature of a work of art-especially of a painting-by how widely and how well it is reproduced?”

58. “What is more natural in a democratic age than that we should begin to measure the stature of a work of art-especially of a painting-by how widely and how well it is reproduced?”

— Daniel J. Boorstin

Daniel J. Boorstin Quote: “Standing, standing, standing – why do I have to stand all the time? That is the main characteristic of social Washington.”

59. “Standing, standing, standing – why do I have to stand all the time? That is the main characteristic of social Washington.”

— Daniel J. Boorstin

Daniel J. Boorstin Quote: “We try to make our celebrities stand in for the heroes we no longer have, or for those who have been pushed out of our view... Yet the celebrity is usually nothing greater than a more-publicized version of us. In imitating him, in trying to dress like him, talk like him, look like him, think like him, we are simply imitating ourselves.”

60. “We try to make our celebrities stand in for the heroes we no longer have, or for those who have been pushed out of our view... Yet the celebrity is usually nothing greater than a more-publicized version of us. In imitating him, in trying to dress like him, talk like him, look like him, think like him, we are simply imitating ourselves.”

— Daniel J. Boorstin

Daniel J. Boorstin Quote: “While the easiest way in metaphysics is to condemn all metaphysics as nonsense, the easiest way in morals is to elevate the common practice of the community into a moral absolute.”

61. “While the easiest way in metaphysics is to condemn all metaphysics as nonsense, the easiest way in morals is to elevate the common practice of the community into a moral absolute.”

— Daniel J. Boorstin

Daniel J. Boorstin Quote: “Formerly, a public man needed a private secretary for a barrier between himself and the public. Nowadays he has a press secretary, to keep him properly in the public eye.”

62. “Formerly, a public man needed a private secretary for a barrier between himself and the public. Nowadays he has a press secretary, to keep him properly in the public eye.”

— Daniel J. Boorstin

Daniel J. Boorstin Quote: “It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world.”

63. “It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world.”

— Daniel J. Boorstin

Daniel J. Boorstin Quote: “We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman.”

64. “We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman.”

— Daniel J. Boorstin

Daniel J. Boorstin Quote: “There is no known device for artistic contraception.”

65. “There is no known device for artistic contraception.”

— Daniel J. Boorstin

Daniel J. Boorstin Quote: “The shadow has become the substance.”

66. “The shadow has become the substance.”

— Daniel J. Boorstin

Daniel J. Boorstin Quote: “Where ruts have not yet been worn, it requires less effort to stay out of them.”

67. “Where ruts have not yet been worn, it requires less effort to stay out of them.”

— Daniel J. Boorstin

Daniel J. Boorstin Quote: “A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well.”

68. “A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well.”

— Daniel J. Boorstin

Daniel J. Boorstin Quote: “Since the Creator had made the facts of the after-life inaccessible to man, He must not have required that man understand death in order to live fruitfully.”

69. “Since the Creator had made the facts of the after-life inaccessible to man, He must not have required that man understand death in order to live fruitfully.”

— Daniel J. Boorstin

Daniel J. Boorstin Quote: “We have become so accustomed to our illusions that we mistake them for reality.”

70. “We have become so accustomed to our illusions that we mistake them for reality.”

— Daniel J. Boorstin

Daniel J. Boorstin Quote: “The hero reveals the possibilities of human nature; the celebrity reveals the possibilities of the media.”

71. “The hero reveals the possibilities of human nature; the celebrity reveals the possibilities of the media.”

— Daniel J. Boorstin

Daniel J. Boorstin Quote: “There is no cure for illusions. There is only the opportunity for discovery.”

72. “There is no cure for illusions. There is only the opportunity for discovery.”

— Daniel J. Boorstin

Daniel J. 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.”

73. “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 J. Boorstin

Daniel J. Boorstin Quote: “The Greeks saw the advance of civilization bringing new ills. Their sour parable of technological progress was the familiar myth of Prometheus. Punished for affronting the gods by stealing fire for men’s use, Prometheus was chained to a rock so an eagle could feed on his liver, which grew back each night. According to Lucretius, necessity had led men to invent, and then inventions spawned frivolous needs that equipped and encouraged them to slaughter one another in war.”

74. “The Greeks saw the advance of civilization bringing new ills. Their sour parable of technological progress was the familiar myth of Prometheus. Punished for affronting the gods by stealing fire for men’s use, Prometheus was chained to a rock so an eagle could feed on his liver, which grew back each night. According to Lucretius, necessity had led men to invent, and then inventions spawned frivolous needs that equipped and encouraged them to slaughter one another in war.”

— Daniel J. Boorstin

Daniel J. Boorstin Quote: “Much of what we have been doing to improve the world’s opinion of us has had the contrary effect. Audio-visual aids which we have sent over the world are primary aids to the belief in the irrelevance, the arrogance, the rigidity, and the conceit of America. Not because they are poorly made. On the contrary, because they are well made and vividly projected. Not because they are favorable images or unfavorable images, but because they are images.”

75. “Much of what we have been doing to improve the world’s opinion of us has had the contrary effect. Audio-visual aids which we have sent over the world are primary aids to the belief in the irrelevance, the arrogance, the rigidity, and the conceit of America. Not because they are poorly made. On the contrary, because they are well made and vividly projected. Not because they are favorable images or unfavorable images, but because they are images.”

— Daniel J. Boorstin

Daniel J. Boorstin Quote: “This sense of time, the awareness that countless others have come before and that others will follow in endless generations, distinguishes man from other animals. With this discovery of the meaning of death – that man’s own life is limited – the life of architecture begins. And so begins man the creator’s effort to conquer time.”

76. “This sense of time, the awareness that countless others have come before and that others will follow in endless generations, distinguishes man from other animals. With this discovery of the meaning of death – that man’s own life is limited – the life of architecture begins. And so begins man the creator’s effort to conquer time.”

— Daniel J. Boorstin

Daniel J. Boorstin Quote: “The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.”

77. “The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.”

— Daniel J. Boorstin

Daniel J. Boorstin Quote: “Yet, while tobacco and the newly dominant Southern crop, cotton, put Southern roots ever deeper into the soil, the fisheries drew New England out toward the world.”

78. “Yet, while tobacco and the newly dominant Southern crop, cotton, put Southern roots ever deeper into the soil, the fisheries drew New England out toward the world.”

— Daniel J. Boorstin

Daniel J. Boorstin Quote: “The more readily we make household names and the more numerous they become, the less are they worthy of our admiration... We can make a celebrity, but we can never make a hero. In a now-almost-forgotten sense, all heroes are self-made.”

79. “The more readily we make household names and the more numerous they become, the less are they worthy of our admiration... We can make a celebrity, but we can never make a hero. In a now-almost-forgotten sense, all heroes are self-made.”

— Daniel J. Boorstin

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