• 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.

  Daniel J. Boorstin
  American historian 1914-2004
  - +

   0

See all quotes by Daniel J. Boorstin

Subjects in these quotes:

1. preoccupies
2. fabrication
3. god-fearing
4. society
5. himself
6. becomes

Similar authors

• Barbara W. Tuchman
  American historian 64
• Carroll Quigley
  American historian and theorist 48
• Carter G. Woodson
  American historian, author and journalist 31
• Bernard Bailyn
  American historian, author, and academic 23
• Henry Brooks Adams
  American historian 21
• Albert Bushnell Hart
  American historian, writer, and editor 15
• Bruce Catton
  American historian and journalist 13
• Daniel J. Boorstin
  American historian 12

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. by : Daniel J. Boorstin

Greatest-Quotations.com

Already since 2003 providing you with the best quotations