We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even eager - to discover, from the announcement of a new product, what we have all along wanted without really knowing it.
Daniel J. Boorstin

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
Daniel J. Boorstin

As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.
Daniel J. Boorstin

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
Daniel J. Boorstin

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.
Daniel J. Boorstin

Nothing is really real unless it happens on television.
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

I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early.
Daniel J. Boorstin