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Daniel J. Boorstin was an influential American historian known for his research on historical writing and public knowledge. His work emphasized the connection between history and contemporary life, as well as the role of historians in shaping public consciousness.

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“The Christian test was a willingness to believe in the one Jesus Christ and His Message of salvation. What was demanded was not criticism but credulity. The Church Fathers observed that in the realm of thought only heresy had a history.”

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Book:The Discoverers

Source: The Discoverers

“No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.”

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Author:Daniel J. Boorstin

“The great obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge.”

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Author:Daniel J. Boorstin

“I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.”

“God is the celebrity author of the world's best seller. We have made god into the biggest celebrity of all, to contain our own emptiness.”

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Book:The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America

Source: The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America

“What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not a power but an image.”

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Author:Daniel J. Boorstin

About the Author

Born: October 1, 1914
Died: February 28, 2004
Known for: Historian
Quotes: 127

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