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.

— Daniel J. Boorstin The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America (1961)

More quotes by Daniel J. Boorstin

The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination (1992)

The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America (1961)

The Republic of Technology (1978)

The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson (1948)

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