It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world.
Daniel J. BoorstinSome are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
Daniel J. BoorstinClimaxing a movement for calendar reform which had been developing for at least a century, in 1582 Pope Gregory ordained that October 4 was to be followed by October 15.
Daniel J. BoorstinIt 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