"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."

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"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."

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"To change reality, change your thoughts and perceptions."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Reality, Change, Perception, Mindset

"If some people came into contact with anything real they would be shocked out of their minds."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Reality, Truth, Wisdom, Power

"No," said a voice, "the only thing wrong on a night like that is that there is a world and you must come back to it."

Ray Bradbury, American Writer

Reality, World, Existence, Night, Voice

"They scattered with no melody, no harmony, no rhythm to hold them. If music was emotion and emotion came from thought, then this was the scream of chaos, of the irrational, of the helpless, of man's self-abdication."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

Reality, Chaos, Emotion, Music, Thought

"The thing that most people didn't understand, if they weren't in his line if work, was that a rape victim and a victim of a fatal accident were both gone forever. The difference was that the rape victim still had to go through the motions of being alive."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

Reality, Life, Death, Suffering

"Not the reality, but your thoughts define your destiny."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Reality, Thoughts, Destiny, Perception

"It is so sad that too many individuals spend their entire lives trying to impress people who are mostly clueless about their true purpose on earth."

Edmond Mbiaka, American Author

Reality, Sadness, Life, Purpose, Truth

"He woke once more to external reality, looked round him, knew what he saw- knewit, with a sinking sense of horror and disgust, for the recurrent deliriumof his days and nights, the nightmare of swarming indistinguishable sameness."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

Reality, Horror, Disgust, Perception

"It is impossible for a man to outpace his shadow."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Reality, Pace, Limits, Perception

"We all know there is something wrong with our culture, the state of our world, and with ourselves."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Reality, Culture, World, Truth, Self

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"The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises."

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"Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion."

Knowledge

"I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one."

Genius

"As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves."

Love

"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.""

Experience

"An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service."

Design

"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge."

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"To change reality, change your thoughts and perceptions."

"If some people came into contact with anything real they would be shocked out of their minds."

"No," said a voice, "the only thing wrong on a night like that is that there is a world and you must come back to it."

"They scattered with no melody, no harmony, no rhythm to hold them. If music was emotion and emotion came from thought, then this was the scream of chaos, of the irrational, of the helpless, of man's self-abdication."

"The thing that most people didn't understand, if they weren't in his line if work, was that a rape victim and a victim of a fatal accident were both gone forever. The difference was that the rape victim still had to go through the motions of being alive."

"Not the reality, but your thoughts define your destiny."

"It is so sad that too many individuals spend their entire lives trying to impress people who are mostly clueless about their true purpose on earth."

"He woke once more to external reality, looked round him, knew what he saw- knewit, with a sinking sense of horror and disgust, for the recurrent deliriumof his days and nights, the nightmare of swarming indistinguishable sameness."

"It is impossible for a man to outpace his shadow."

"We all know there is something wrong with our culture, the state of our world, and with ourselves."

Explore more quotes by Daniel J. Boorstin

"The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises."

"Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion."

"I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one."

"As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves."

"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.""

"An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service."

"Nothing is really real unless it happens on television."

"Reading is like the sex act - done privately, and often in bed."

"Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities."

"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge."