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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.
Daniel J. Boorstin
Reality
Vices
Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.
Daniel J. Boorstin
Thought
Opportunity
Freedom
Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
Daniel J. Boorstin
Education
Learning
As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.
Daniel J. Boorstin
Lie
Bed
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
Love
America
Echo
Nation
Now
An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service.
Daniel J. Boorstin
Design
Personality
Service
A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.
Daniel J. Boorstin
Bed
Computer
Contrast
A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services.
Daniel J. Boorstin
Celebrity
Name
Worth
A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well.
Daniel J. Boorstin
Selling
I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.
Daniel J. Boorstin
Genius
Fool