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Marshall McLuhan Quotes

Marshall McLuhan quotes

Canadian Sociologist July 21, 1911 – December 31, 1980

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Marshall McLuhan quote: "Advertisements constitute the only 'good news' in the newspaper."
Advertisements constitute the only 'good news' in the newspaper. Marshall McLuhan
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. Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan quote: "Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably..."
Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition. Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan quote: "Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i. e., the..."
Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i. e., the interval. Marshall McLuhan
There is an impression abroad that literary folk are fast readers. Wine tasters are not heavy drinkers. Literary people read slowly because they sample the complex dimensions and flavors of words and phrases. They strive for totality not lineality. They are well aware that the words on the page have to be decanted with the utmost skill. Those who imagine they read only for "content" are illusioned. Marshall McLuhan
Language does for intelligence what the wheel does for the feet and the body. It enables them to move from thing to thing with greater ease and speed and ever less involvement. Marshall McLuhan
Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts. Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan quote: "Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to..."
Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today’s jobs with yesterday’s tools! Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan quote: "Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and..."
Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either. Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan quote: "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns."
The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns. 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
The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds. Marshall McLuhan
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
Marshall McLuhan quote: "Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century."
Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century. Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan quote: "Adds are the cave art of the twentieth century."
Adds are the cave art of the twentieth century. Marshall McLuhan

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