Daniel J. Boorstin Quotes

Every generation lives with illusions.

Truth is always a delusion.

If you're deluded, you live in a place where there isn't everyone else's reality.

Fantasies are not always what people think they are.

Illusions are hazardous, and so are disillusions.

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

Perception is not always reality.

A man’s greatest treasures are his illusions - Durzo Blint

Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.

The problem with our role is Americans live in a world of illusion.

Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.

A lie to me is a dream that might come true.

I believe in illusion - I don't believe in magic.

I like the idea that we build up these walls or rules or laws to maintain our reality, and when they fall away, you're left with a whole bunch of illusions. Smoke and mirrors.

The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.

I already know what things look like - I don't want description. People believe in appearances, and I don't believe in appearances at all.

The great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are.

What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?

Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.

Illusion never changed into something real.

Tonight, I've finally learned to tell fantasy from reality. And, knowing the difference, I choose fantasy.

Misconceptions play a prominent role in my view of the world.

Whatever happens in the world is real, what one thinks should have happened is projection. We suffer more from our fictitious illusion and expectations of reality.

We do have a distorted view of our fantasies in society, but that's because we don't talk about them enough.

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.