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Marshall Mcluhan Inspirational Quotes (233)

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The global village is a place of very arduous interfaces and very abrasive situations.
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The logos of creation, 'And God Said ...' formed the basis of Christian interpretation of the 'Book of Nature.
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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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The past went that-a-way. When faced with a totally new situation, we tend always to attach ourselves to the objects, to the flavor of the most recent past. We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.
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Youth instinctively understand the present environment - the electric drama. It lives mythically and in depth.
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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.
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Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness.
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My main theme is the extension of the nervous system in the electric age, and thus, the complete break with five thousand years of mechanical technology. This I state over and over again. I do not say whether it is a good or bad thing. To do so would be meaningless and arrogant.
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Photography turns people into things and their image into a mass consumer product.
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In the Phaedrus, Plato argued that the new arrival of writing would revolutionize culture for the worst. He suggested that it would substitute reminiscence for thought and mechanical learning for the true dialect of the living quest for truth by discourse and conversation.
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Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.
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All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.
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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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People who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to mischief.
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... Their power to see environments as they really are.
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Violence, whether spiritual or physical, is a quest for identity and the meaningful. The less identity, the more violence.
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One main condition of aristocratic life was present in the South and not in the North--personal responsibility to other human beings for education and material welfare. (A Carnegie or a Ford, like a bureaucracy, molds the lives of millions without taking any responsibility.)
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I do not say whether it is a good or bad thing. To do so would be meaningless and arrogant.
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Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love.
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Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.
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I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it.
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All media are extensions of some human faculty- psychic or physical.
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Only a fraction of the history of literacy has been typographic.
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Man works when he is partially involved. When he is totally involved he is at play or leisure.
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