Marshall McLuhan Quotes About Perception

Quotes about: Perception

• All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Media, Perception, Arbitrary

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

• People hope that if they scream loudly enough about "values" then others will mistake them for serious, sensitive souls who have higher and nobler perceptions than ordinary people. Otherwise, why would they be screaming? Moral bitterness is a basic technique for endowing the idiot with dignity.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Mistake, People, Soul

• The poet, the artist, the sleuth, whoever sharpens our perception tends to antisocial; rarely 'well adjusted,' he cannot go along with currents and trends.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Artist, Media, Perception

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

• Language always preserves a play or figure/ground relation between experience, and perception and its replay in expression.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Expression, Play, Perception

• Typography tended to alter language from a means of perception and exploration to a portable commodity.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Mean, Perception, Language

  Marshall McLuhan, W. Terrence Gordon, Elena Lamberti, Dominique Scheffel-Dunand (2011). “The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man”, p.183, University of Toronto Press

• The greatest propaganda in the world is our mother tongue, that is what we learn as children, and which we learn unconsciously. That shapes our perceptions for life. That is propaganda at its most extreme form.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Mother, Children, Perception

• Human perception is literally incarnation.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Perception, Incarnation, Humans

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

• The artist is a person who is expert in the training of perception.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Artist, Perception, Training

• What we call art would seem to be specialist artifacts for enhancing human perception.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Perception, Specialists

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