Marshall McLuhan Quotes - Page 6

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• Television is teaching all the time. Does more educating than the schools and all the institutions of higher learning.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Teaching, School, Doe

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• We impose the form of the old on the content of the new.

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  Form

  Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore (1967). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Gingko Pr Inc

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• Our permanent address is tommorrow.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Addresses, Permanent

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• Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.

  Marshall McLuhan

  May, Literacy, Schizophrenia

  Marshall McLuhan, W. Terrence Gordon, Elena Lamberti, Dominique Scheffel-Dunand (2011). “The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man”, p.327, University of Toronto Press

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• If men were able to be convinced that art is a precise advance knowledge of how to cope with the psychic and social consequences of the next technology, would they all become artist? Or would they begin a careful translation of new art forms into social navigation charts? I am curious to know what would happem if art were suddenly seen for what it is, namely, exact information of how to rearrange one's psyche in order to anticipate the next blow from our own extended faculties.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Blow, Technology

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• Any breakdown is a breakthrough.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Mental Illness, Illness, Breakthrough

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• The electric age ... established a global network that has much the character of our central nervous system.

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  Character, Science, Age

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• It is one of the peculiar characteristics of the photograph that it isolates single moments in time.

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  Single Mom, Peculiar, Moments

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• Artists in various fields are always the first to discover how to enable one medium or to release the power of another.

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  Media, Fields, Firsts

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• Physiologically, man in the normal use of technology (or his variously extended body) is perpetually modified by it and in turn finds ever new ways of modifying his technology. Man becomes, as it were, the sex organs of the machine world, as the bee of the plant world, enabling it to fecundate and to evolve ever new forms. The machine world reciprocates man's love by expediting his wishes and desires, namely, in providing him with wealth.

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  Sex, Technology, Men

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• The story begins only when the book closes.

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  Book, Stories

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• When things come at you very fast, naturally you lose touch with yourself.

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  Loses

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• I do not explain, I explore.

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  Exploration

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• The ignorance of how to use knowledge stockpiles exponentially.

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  Ignorance, Use

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• The price of eternal vigilance is indifference.

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  Defense, Indifference, Vigilance

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.

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  Light, Space, Silence

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• To say that "the camera cannot lie" is merely to underline the multiple deceits that are now practised in its name.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Lying, Names, Cameras

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• Poetry and the arts can’t exist in America. Mere exposure to the arts does nothing for a mentality which is incorrigibly dialectical. The vital tensions and nutritive action of ideogram
  remain inaccessible to this state of mind.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, America, Mind

  Marshall McLuhan, Matie Molinaro, Corinne McLuhan, William Toye (1987). “Letters of Marshall McLuhan”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The bible belt is oral territory and therefore despised by the literati.

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  Territory, Belts, Despised

  "The Critic", Vol. 33, Thomas More Association, p. 12, 1974.

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• Electricity does not centralize, but decentralizes.

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  Doe, Electricity

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• Money is a poor man's credit card.

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  Men, Cards, Credit

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• Mysticism is just tomorrow's science dreamed today.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Today, Tomorrow, Mysticism

  "A Candid Conversation with the High Priest of Popcult and Metaphysician of Media". Playboy Interview with Eric Norden, March 1969.

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• The young today cannot follow narrative but they are alert to drama. They cannot bear description but they love landscape and action.

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  Drama, Landscape, Narrative

  Marshall McLuhan, Matie Molinaro, Corinne McLuhan, William Toye (1987). “Letters of Marshall McLuhan”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The percept takes priority of the concept.

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  Priorities, Concepts

  Marshall McLuhan, Matie Molinaro, Corinne McLuhan, William Toye (1987). “Letters of Marshall McLuhan”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Military

  Quoted in Montreal Gazette, 16 May 1975

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