Marshall McLuhan Quotes - Page 5

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• Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition.

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  Confusion, Feelings, Despair

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

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• Only the vanquished remember history.

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  Political, Remember

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• Everybody tends to merge his identity with other people at the speed of light. It's called being mass man.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Men, Light, People

  Herbert Marshall Mcluhan (2010). “Understanding Me: Lectures and Interviews”, p.268, McClelland & Stewart

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• Anything that's popular is a rear-view image.

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  Views, Independence, Rear View

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• First we build the tools, then they build us.

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  Tools, Firsts

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• Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.

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  Art, Business, Journey

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• People who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to mischief.

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  Writing, Science, People

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• I expect to see the coming decades transform the planet into an art form; the new man, linked in a cosmic harmony that transcends time and space, will sensuously caress and mold and pattern every facet of the terrestrial artifact as if it were a work of art, and man himself will become an organic art form.

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  Art, Men, Space

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• Any breakdown is a breakthrough.

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  Mental Illness, Illness, Breakthrough

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

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  Teaching, School, Doe

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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.

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  Art, Blow, Technology

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

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• All forms of violence are quests for identity. When you live on the frontier, you have no identity. You're a nobody.

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  Identity, Quests, Violence

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

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• Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.

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  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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• 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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• Innovation for holders of conventional wisdom is not novelty but annihilation.

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  Innovation, Novelty, Annihilation

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• It has always been the artist who realizes that the future is the present and uses his work to prepare the grounds for it

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  Artist, Use, Realizing

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• Today's child is bewildered when he enters the 19th century environment that still characterizes the educational establishment where information is scarce but ordered and structured by fragmented, classified patterns subjects, and schedules.

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  Children, Educational, Schedules

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

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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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• Whence did the wond'rous mystic art arise, / Of painting SPEECH, and speaking to the eyes? / That we by tracing magic lines are taught, / How to embody, and to colour THOUGHT?

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  Art, Eye, Magic

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

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• Our permanent address is tommorrow.

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  Addresses, Permanent

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• The story begins only when the book closes.

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  Book, Stories

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• The 'content' of any medium is always another medium.

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  Mediums

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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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