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Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

- Daniel J. Boorstin

More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge.

- Daniel J. Boorstin

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

It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world. Expecting more novelty than there is, more greatness than there is, and more strangeness than there is, we imagine ourselves masters of a plastic universe. But a world we can shape to our will is a shapeless world.

- Daniel J. Boorstin

The great obstacle to discovery is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

- Daniel J. Boorstin