Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Life. Consider the alternative.
Marshall McLuhan
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Marshall McLuhan
Age: 69 †
Born: 1911
Born: July 21
Died: 1980
Died: December 31
Literary Critic
Philosopher
Sociologist
University Teacher
Writer
Edmonton
Alberta
Herbert Marshall McLuhan
Marshall MacLuhan
Marshall Mac Luhan
Life
Alternative
Insanity
Alternatives
Consider
Death
More quotes by Marshall McLuhan
Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.
Marshall McLuhan
In an age of multiple and massive innovations, obsolescence becomes the major obsession.
Marshall McLuhan
Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition.
Marshall McLuhan
For tribal man, space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.
Marshall McLuhan
All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.
Marshall McLuhan
Fish did not discover water.
Marshall McLuhan
Metaphor has traditionally been regarded as the matrix and pattern of the figures of speech.
Marshall McLuhan
Such is the content of the mental life of the Hemingway hero and the good guy in general. Every day he gets beaten into a servile pulp by his own mechanical reflexes, which are constantly busy registering and reacting to the violent stimuli which his big, noisy, kinesthetic environment has provided for his unreflective reception.
Marshall McLuhan
Typography tended to alter language from a means of perception and exploration to a portable commodity.
Marshall McLuhan
Cubism ('multi-locationalism') is one of the painterly forms of acoustic space.
Marshall McLuhan
The new media and technologies by which we amplify and extend ourselves constitute huge collective surgery carried out on the social body with complete disregard for antiseptics.
Marshall McLuhan
First we shape our tools, thereafter they shape us
Marshall McLuhan
In Jesus Christ, there is no distance or separation between the medium and the message: it is the one case where we can say that the medium and the message are fully one and the same.
Marshall McLuhan
Violence is the quest for identity. When identity disappears with technological innovation, violence is the natural recourse.
Marshall McLuhan
... Their power to see environments as they really are.
Marshall McLuhan
It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.
Marshall McLuhan
I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.
Marshall McLuhan
Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.
Marshall McLuhan
All advertising advertises advertising.
Marshall McLuhan
The content or time-clothing of any medium or culture is the preceding medium or culture.
Marshall McLuhan
