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Phenomenology is dialectic in ear-mode - a massive and decentralized quest for roots, for ground.
— Marshall McLuhan
Electricity does not centralize, but decentralizes.
— Marshall McLuhan
The winner is one who knows when to drop out in order to get in touch.
— Marshall McLuhan
Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
— Marshall McLuhan
A nomadic society cannot experience enclosed space.
— Marshall McLuhan
Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.
— Marshall McLuhan
For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.
— Marshall McLuhan
Scribal culture and Gothic architecture were both concerned with light through, not light on.
— Marshall McLuhan
A typewriter is a means of transcribing thought, not expressing it.
— Marshall McLuhan
There ain't no grammatical errors in a non-literate society.
— Marshall McLuhan
It is one of the peculiar characteristics of the photograph that it isolates single moments in time.
— Marshall McLuhan
The mother tongue is propaganda.
— Marshall McLuhan
The new media are not ways of relating to us the 'real' world; they are the real world and they reshape what remains of the old world at will.
— Marshall McLuhan
The artist is the person who invents the means to bridge between biological inheritance and the environments created by technological innovation.
— Marshall McLuhan
The reader is the content of any poem or of the language he employs, and in order to use any of these forms, he must put them on.
— Marshall McLuhan
Beware clarity. A man speaking to you in clear language is clearly using obsolete ideas.
— Herbert Marshall Mcluhan
The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving toward the grand fallacy.
— Marshall McLuhan
All meaning alters with acceleration, because all patterns of personal and political interdependence change with any acceleration of information.
— Marshall McLuhan
Attention spans get very weak at the speed of light, and that goes along with a very week identity.
— Marshall McLuhan
Money is a poor man's credit card.
— Marshall McLuhan
The 'expert' is the man who stays put.
— Marshall McLuhan
The 'content' of any medium is always another medium.
— Marshall McLuhan
A moral point of view too often serves as a substitute for understanding in technological matters.
— Marshall McLuhan
The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.
— Marshall McLuhan
if it works it's obsolete
— Marshall McLuhan
I satirize at all times, and my hyperboles are as nothing compared to the events to which they refer.
— Marshall McLuhan
The global village is a place of very arduous interfaces and very abrasive situations.
— Marshall McLuhan
John Kenneth Galbraith and Marshall McLuhan are the two greatest modern Canadians that the U.S. has produced.
— Anthony Burgess
All the new media are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumptions.
— Marshall McLuhan
The content or message of any particular medium has about as much importance as the stenciling on the casing of an atomic bomb.
— Marshall McLuhan
Propaganda begins when dialogue ends. (Quoted by Marshall McLuhan in McLuhan Hot & Cool)
— Jacques Ellul
Computers can do better than ever what needn't be done at all. Making sense is still a human monopoly.
— Marshall McLuhan
It is possible to deal with the entire environment as a work of art.
— Marshall McLuhan
Once you see the boundaries of your environment, they are no longer the boundaries of your environment.
— Marshall McLuhan
Mysticism is just tomorrow's science dreamed today.
— Marshall McLuhan
Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.
— Marshall McLuhan
We don't know who discovered water, but we know it wasn't the fish.
— Marshall McLuhan
The most human thing about us is our technology.
— Marshall McLuhan
Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy. [p. 32]
— Marshall McLuhan
Of the many unforeseen consequences of typography, the emergence of nationalism is, perhaps, the most familiar
— Marshall McLuhan
Attention as a communication medium just because it has no "content." And this makes it an invaluable instance of how people
— Marshall McLuhan
If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.
— Marshall McLuhan
The electric light is pure information. It is a medium without a message
— Marshall McLuhan
We have be-come irrevocably involved with, and responsible for, each other.
— Marshall McLuhan
The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village.
— Marshall McLuhan
The genteel is a mighty catafalque of service-with-a-smile and flattering solicitude smothering every spontaneous movement of thought or feeling.
— Marshall McLuhan
Metaphor has traditionally been regarded as the matrix and pattern of the figures of speech.
— Marshall McLuhan
A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.
— Marshall McLuhan
Since with electricity we extend our central nervous system globally, instantly interrelating every human experience.
— Marshall McLuhan
As information becomes our environment, it becomes mandatory to program the environment itself as a work of art.
— Marshall McLuhan
Language is a form of organized stutter.
— Marshall McLuhan
There is a real, living unity in our time, as in any other, but it lies submerged under a superficial hubbub of sensation.
— Marshall McLuhan
Sentimentality, like pornography, is fragmented emotion; a natural consequence of a high visual gradient in any culture.
— Marshall McLuhan
Youth instinctively understand the present environment - the electric drama. It lives mythically and in depth.
— Marshall McLuhan
Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist.
— Marshall McLuhan
The new media are not bridges between man and nature; they are nature.
— Marshall McLuhan
Interface, of the resonant interval as 'where the action is', whether chemical, psychic or social, involves touch.
— Marshall McLuhan
Relativity theory forced the abandonment, in principle, of absolute space and absolute time.
— Marshall McLuhan
Everybody at the speed of light tends to become a nobody.
— Marshall McLuhan
We shape our tools and afterwards our tools shape us.
— Marshall McLuhan
There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.
— Marshall McLuhan
The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete in the urban compound.
— Marshall McLuhan
Technologies themselves, regardless of content, produce a hemispheric bias in the users.
— Marshall McLuhan
The medium is the message.
— Marshall McLuhan
Time' has ceased, 'space' has vanished. We now live in a global village ... a simultaneous happening
— Marshall McLuhan
Nothing is inevitable if we are willing to contemplate what is happening.
— Marshall McLuhan
Money is just the poor man's credit card.
— Marshall McLuhan
Nobody can commit photography alone.
— Marshall McLuhan
Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.
— Marshall McLuhan
Politics offers yesterday's answers to today's problems.
— Marshall McLuhan
I don't want them to believe me, I just want them to think.
— Marshall McLuhan
Only the vanquished remember history.
— Marshall McLuhan
Most clear writing is a sign that there is no exploration going on. Clear prose indicates the absence of thought.
— Marshall McLuhan
The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf.
— Marshall McLuhan
Literacy, the visual technology, dissolved the tribal magic by means of its stress on fragmentation and specialization and created the individual.
— Marshall McLuhan
World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.
— Marshall McLuhan
It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.
— Marshall McLuhan
Why is it so easy to acquire the solutions of past problems and so difficult to solve current ones
— Marshall McLuhan
Technology is that which separates us from our environment.
— Marshall McLuhan
Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.
— Marshall McLuhan
As a rule, I always look for what others ignore.
— Marshall McLuhan
Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.
— Marshall McLuhan
I'm not sure who discovered water, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't a fish.
— Marshall McLuhan
Ads represent the main channel of intellectual and artistic effort in the modern world.
— Marshall McLuhan
There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.
— Marshall McLuhan
Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments.
— Marshall McLuhan
Some days, I wish the whole fucking world would just 'phone in sick.
— Marshall McLuhan
When new technologies impose themselves on societies long habituated to older technologies, anxieties of all kinds result.
— Marshall McLuhan
Arists in various fields are always the first to discover how to enable one medium or to release the power of another.
— Marshall McLuhan
American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.
— Marshall McLuhan
It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic.
— Marshall McLuhan
To say that a body or its gravitational field 'bends in space' in its vicinity is the discuss visual space in acoustic terms.
— Marshall McLuhan
Language always preserves a play or figure/ground relation between experience, and perception and its replay in expression.
— Marshall McLuhan
