Marshall McLuhan Quotes - Page 8

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• Youth instinctively understand the present environment - the electric drama. It lives mythically and in depth.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Drama, Depth, Youth

  "The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects". Book by Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore, 1967.

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• The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Humorous, Blow, Men

  Understanding Media (1964) p. 32

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• Ours is a brand-new world of allatonceness [all-at-once-ness]. 'Time' has ceased, 'space' has vanished. We now live in a global village ... a simultaneous happening. ... The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Science, Space, World

  The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man (1962)

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• Today we are beginning to notice that the new media are not just mechanical gimmicks for creating worlds of illusion, but new languages with new and unique powers of expression.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Unique, Media, Expression

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• The scientist rigorously defends his right to be ignorant of almost everything except his specialty.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Ignorant, Investing, Scientist

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

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• A moral point of view too often serves as a substitute for understanding in technological matters.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Views, Understanding, Matter

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

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• In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Birthday, Moving, Technology

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• Phenomenology is dialectic in ear-mode - a massive and decentralized quest for roots, for ground.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Roots, Phenomenology, Ears

  "Laws of Media: The New Science". Book by Marshall McLuhan, co-written with Eric McLuhan, p.62, 1988.

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• Any loss of identity prompts people to seek reassurance and rediscovery of themselves by testing, and even by violence. Today, the electric revolution, the wired planet, and the information environment involve everybody in everybody to the point of individual extinction.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Loss, People, Identity

  "Letters of Marshall McLuhan" by Marshall McLuhan, (p. 514), 1987.

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• Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Agency, Today, Classroom

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• Except for light, all other media come in pairs, with one acting as the "content" of the other, obscuring the operation of both.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Light, Media, Acting

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

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• Education in a technological world of replaceable and expendable parts is neuter.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Education, World, Expendables

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• Human perception is literally incarnation.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Perception, Incarnation, Humans

  Howard Rollin Patch, Walter J. Ong, Marshall McLuhan (1954). “Christian humanism in leters”

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• The global village is a place of very arduous interfaces and very abrasive situations.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Village, Situation, Interfaces

  "The Education of Mike McManus" (TV Ontario), December 28, 1977.

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• A typewriter is a means of transcribing thought, not expressing it.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Mean, Typewriters, Transcribing

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• Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Artist, Creative, Lasts

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• Ads represent the main channel of intellectual and artistic effort in the modern world.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Effort, Intellectual, World

  Commonweal, Volume 58 (p. 557), 1953.

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• Such is the content of the mental life of the Hemingway hero and the good guy in general. Every day he gets beaten into a servile pulp by his own mechanical reflexes, which are constantly busy registering and reacting to the violent stimuli which his big, noisy, kinesthetic environment has provided for his unreflective reception.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Hero, Guy, Environment

  "The Mechanical Bride : Folklore of Industrial Man". Book by Marshall McLuhan, "Eye Appeal", p. 79-80, 1951.

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• I am a Christian according to my conscience in belief,in purpose and wish;Mnot of course by the orthodox standard. But I am content, and have a feeling of trust and safety.
  The Machiavellian mind and the merchant mind are at one in their simple faith in the power of segmental division to rule all--in the dichotomy of power and morals and of money and morals.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Christian, Money, Simple

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• Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Intelligent, People

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• Our electrically-configured world has forced us to move from the habit of data classification to the mode of pattern recognition. We can no longer build serially, block-by-block, step-by-step, because instant communication insures that all factors of the environment and of experience co-exist in a state of active interplay.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Block, Moving, Communication

  Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Hardwired

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• The subliminal depths of radio are charged with the resonating echoes of tribal horns and antique drums. This is inherent in the very nature of this medium, with its power to turn the
  psyche and society into a single echo chamber.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Echoes, Depth, Antiques

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

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• The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Photography, Travel, Encounters

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

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• The circuited city of the future will not be the huge hunk of concentrated real estate created by the railway. It will take on a totally new meaning under conditions of very rapid movement. It will be an information megalopolis.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Real, Cities, Movement

  Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Hardwired

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• Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Dew, Culture

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