Daniel J. Boorstin Quotes About Reality

Quotes about: Reality

• 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 J. Boorstin

  Reality, Suffering, Weakness

  Daniel J. Boorstin (1978). “The Image”

• The American citizen lives in a world where fantasy is more real than reality, where the image has more dignity than its original. We hardly dare face our bewilderment, because our ambiguous experience is so pleasantly irridescent, and the solace of belief in contrived reality is so thoroughly real. We have become eager accessories to the great hoaxes of the age. These are the hoaxes we play on ourselves.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Real, Play, Age

  "The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America" by Daniel J. Boorstin, Vintage edition (p. 37), 1992.

• Nothing is really real unless it happens on television.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Real, Reality, Television

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• There's something beautifully soothing about a fact — even (or perhaps especially) if we're not sure what it means.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Mean, Reality, Facts

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