#boorstin

The walls of Babylon on a movie set did not need to be solid so long as the photographed version made them look so.

Nie spieraj się z idiotą, ktoś patrzący z boku mógłby was pomylić.

All of us ... are daily less interested in whether something is a fact than in whether it is convenient that it should be believed.

We risk being the first people in history to have been able to make their illusions so vivid, so persuasive, so 'realistic' that they can live in them.

More important than what a Buick really is, is our image of it. We are sold it and we buy it and enjoy it for its image and how we fit into the image.

As with other pseudo-events, about God, too, the most interesting question for us is not what he does but whether he exists.

As there comes to be less and less difference between the time it takes to reach one place rather than another, time itself dissolves as a measure of space.

If we test presidential candidates by their talents on TV quiz performances, we will, of course, choose presidents for precisely these qualifications. In a democracy, reality tends to conform to the pseudo event. Nature imitates art.