Marshall McLuhan quotes - page 2

Marshall McLuhan was a Canadian philosopher and professor, renowned for his work in media theory. His concept that "the medium is the message" transformed how society thinks about communication and technology. He profoundly influenced modern media studies and continues to shape popular culture. Here are 532 of his quotes:

I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it. (Marshall McLuhan)
The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad and incomplete in the urban compound. View quote
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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. View quote
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The more data banks record about us, the less we exist. View quote
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People don't actually read newspapers. They step into them every morning like a hot bath. View quote
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I don't explain-I explore. View quote
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Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities. View quote
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Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials. View quote
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The global village is a place of very arduous interfaces and very abrasive situations. View quote
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We don't know who discovered water, but we know it wasn't the fish. View quote
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We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future. (Marshall McLuhan)
Environments are not just containers, but are processes that change the content totally. View quote
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Every innovation scraps its immediate predecessor and retrieves still older figures – it causes floods of antiques or nostalgic art forms and stimulates the search for museum pieces. View quote
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Literacy, the visual technology, dissolved the tribal magic by means of its stress on fragmentation and specialization and created the individual. View quote
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The criminal, like the artist, is a social explorer. View quote
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Human perception is literally incarnation. View quote
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Invention is the mother of all necessities. View quote
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The content or time-clothing of any medium or culture is the preceding medium or culture. View quote
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World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation. View quote
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Language is a form of organized stutter. View quote
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The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf. (Marshall McLuhan)
Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity. View quote
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Jokes are grievances. View quote
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Mysticism is just tomorrow's science dreamed today. View quote
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Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning. View quote
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Marshall McLuhan

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Occupation: Canadian Educator
Born: July 21, 1911
Died: December 31, 1980
Quotes count: 532
Wikipedia: Marshall McLuhan

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