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The Republic of Technology where we will be living is a feedback world.
Daniel J. Boorstin
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Daniel J. Boorstin
Age: 89 †
Born: 1914
Born: October 1
Died: 2004
Died: February 28
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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.
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The modern American tourist now fills his experience with pseudo-events. He has come to expect both more strangeness and more familiarity than the world naturally offers. He has come to believe that he can have a lifetime of adventure in two weeks and all the thrills of risking his life without any real risk at all.
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The mind is a vagrant thing.... Thinking is not analogous to a person working in a laboratory who invents something on company time.
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Nothing is really real unless it happens on television.
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The American experience stirred mankind from discovery to exploration. From the cautious quest for what they knew (or thought they knew) was out there, into an enthusiastic reaching to the unknown. These are two substantially different kinds of human enterprise.
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The history of Western science confirms the aphorism that the great menace to progress is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.
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Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.
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It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world.
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We must abandon the prevalent belief in the superior wisdom of the ignorant.
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The traveler used to go about the world to encounter the natives. A function of travel agencies now is to prevent this encounter.
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The institutional scene in which American man has developed has lacked that accumulation from intervening stages which has been so dominant a feature of the European landscape.
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While knowledge is orderly and cumulative, information is random and miscellaneous.
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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.
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. . . the messiness of experience, that may be what we mean by life.
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An enamored amateur need not be a genius to stay out of the ruts he has never been trained in.
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Until now when we have started to talk about the uniqueness of America we have almost always ended by comparing ourselves to Europe. Toward her we have felt all the attraction and repulsions of Oedipus
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The computer can help us find what we know is there. But the book remains our symbol and our resource for the unimagined question and the unwelcome answer.
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The Christian test was a willingness to believe in the one Jesus Christ and His Message of salvation. What was demanded was not criticism but credulity. The Church Fathers observed that in the realm of thought only heresy had a history.
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A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.
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Throught human history, illusions of knowledge, not ignorance, have proven to be the principal obstacles to discovery
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