Daniel J. Boorstin Quotes
Best 6 The Image Quotes by Daniel J. Boorstin
The Image Quotes
“Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety.”
“Our discontent begins by finding false villains whom we can accuse of deceiving us. Next we find false heroes whom we expect to liberate us. The hardest, most discomfiting discovery is that each of us must emancipate himself.”
“The hero created himself; the celebrity is created by the media.”
“The hero is known for achievements; the celebrity for well-knowns. The hero reveals the possibilities of human nature. The celebrity reveals the possibilities of the press and media. Celebrities are people who make news, but heroes are people who make history. Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.”
“We have become so accustomed to our illusions that we mistake them for 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.”
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“Any human society is free to choose, either to display great energy or to enjoy sexual freedom.
The evidence is that it cannot do both for more than one generation.”