Marshall McLuhan Quotes - Page 6

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• People don't actually read newspapers - they get into them every morning like a hot bath.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Morning, People, Hot

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• I do not explain, I explore.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Exploration

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• Money is a poor man's credit card.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Men, Cards, Credit

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

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• On Spaceship Earth there are no passengers; everybody is a member of the crew. We have moved into an age in which everybody's activities affect everybody else.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Age, Earth, Spaceships

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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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• Control over change would seem to consist in moving not with it but ahead of it. Anticipation gives the power to deflect and control force.

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  Moving, Giving, Anticipation

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

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

  Marshall McLuhan

  Territory, Belts, Despised

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• For tribal man, space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

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  Time, Men, Space

  "The Mechanical Bride : Folklore of Industrial Man" by Marshall McLuhan, (p. 85), 1951.

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• Our technology forces us to live mythically

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  Technology, Force

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

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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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• As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.

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  Art, Real, Mean

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• Jokes are grievances.

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  Grievance, Jokes

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• Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the individual and the critical awareness of the groundrules of society. The amateur can afford to lose. The professional tends to classify and specialise, to accept uncritically the groundrules of the environment. The groundrules provided by the mass response of his colleagues serve as a pervasive environment of which he is contentedly unaware. The 'expert' is the man who stays put.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Men, Experts, Patterns

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

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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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• During the Second War, the U.S.O. sent special issues of the principal American magazines to the Armed Forces, with the ads omitted. The men insisted on having the ads back again. Naturally. The ads are by far the best part of any magazine or newspaper. More pains and thought, more wit and art go into the making of an ad than into any prose feature of press or magazine. Ads are news. What is wrong with them is that they are always good news.

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  Art, Pain, War

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• Any ad consciously attended to is comical. Ads are not meant for conscious consumption. They are intended as subliminal pills for the subconsious in order to exercise an hypnotic spell, especially on sociologists.

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  Exercise, Order, Pills

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• Everybody at the speed of light tends to become a nobody.

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  Light, Speed, Speed Of Light

  "On McLuhan: Forward Through the Rearview Mirror". Book by Frank Zingrone and Marshall McLuhan (p. 101), 1997.

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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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• Radical changes of identity, happening suddenly and in very brief intervals of time, have proved more deadly and destructive of human values than wars fought with hardware weapons.

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  War, Identity, Weapons

  "Laws of Media: The New Science". Book by Marshall McLuhan, co-written with Eric McLuhan, p.97, 1988.

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• One thing about which fish know exactly nothing is water, since they have no anti-environment which would enable them to perceive the element they live in.

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  Water, Elements, Environment

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• Attention spans get very weak at the speed of light, and that goes along with a very weak identity.

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  Light, Identity, Attention

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

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• The artist is the person who invents the means to bridge between biological inheritance and the environments created by technological innovation.

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  Mean, Artist, Media

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