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These creators, makers of the new, can never become obsolete, for in the arts there is no correct answer.
The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination (1992)
Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
A celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.
The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America (1961)
The Republic of Technology where we will be living is a feedback world.
The Republic of Technology (1978)
While the Jeffersonian did not flatly deny the Creator's power to perform miracles, he admired His refusal to do so.
The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson (1948)
A sign of a celebrity is often that his name is worth more than his services.
The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America (1961)
The history of Western science confirms the aphorism that the great menace to progress is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.
Cleopatra's Nose: Essays on the Unexpected (1995)
Since the Creator had made the facts of the after-life inaccessible to man, He must not have required that man understand death in order to live fruitfully.
The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson (1948)
We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place.
The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America (1961)
Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
The news leak is a pseudo‑event par excellence. In its origin and growth, the leak illustrates another axiom of the world of pseudo‑events: pseudo‑events produce more pseudo‑events.
The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America (1961)
In Copernicus' time Pythagoreans still believed that the only way to truth was by mathematics.
The Discoverers (1983)
The image, more interesting than its original, has become the original. The shadow has become the substance.
The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America (1961)
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
Book of Humorous Quotations (1998)
The great obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge.
The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself (1983)
The institutional scene in which American man has developed has lacked that accumulation from intervening stages which has been so dominant a feature of the European landscape.
The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson (1948)
While the easiest way in metaphysics is to condemn all metaphysics as nonsense, the easiest way in morals is to elevate the common practice of the community into a moral absolute.
The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson (1948)
The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing'.
By a diabolical irony the very facsimiles of the world which we make on purpose to bring it within our grasp, to make it less elusive, have transported us into a new world of blurs.
The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America (1961)
I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early.