Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
... Their power to see environments as they really are.
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
Environments
Environment
Media
Power
Really
More quotes by Marshall McLuhan
The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.
Marshall McLuhan
On Spaceship Earth there are no passengers everybody is a member of the crew. We have moved into an age in which everybody's activities affect everybody else.
Marshall McLuhan
One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humor.
Marshall McLuhan
When things come at you very fast, naturally you lose touch with yourself.
Marshall McLuhan
Art is anything you can get away with.
Marshall McLuhan
If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.
Marshall McLuhan
Life. Consider the alternative.
Marshall McLuhan
The family circle has widened. The worldpool of information fathered by the electric media--movies, Telstar, flight--far surpassesany possible influence mom and dad can now bring to bear. Character no longer is shaped by only two earnest, fumbling experts. Now all the world's a sage.
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
Any loss of identity prompts people to seek reassurance and rediscovery of themselves by testing, and even by violence. Today, the electric revolution, the wired planet, and the information environment involve everybody in everybody to the point of individual extinction.
Marshall McLuhan
Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness.
Marshall McLuhan
A nomadic society cannot experience enclosed space.
Marshall McLuhan
The 'expert' is the man who stays put.
Marshall McLuhan
The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village.
Marshall McLuhan
Our technology forces us to live mythically
Marshall McLuhan
Information and images bump against each other every day in massive quantities, and the resonance of this interfacing is like the babble of a village or tavern gossip session.
Marshall McLuhan
I do not explain, I explore.
Marshall McLuhan
Logos is the formal cause of the kosmos and all things, responsible for their nature and configuration.
Marshall McLuhan
Typographic man can express but is helpless to read the configurations of print technology.
Marshall McLuhan
Artists in various fields are always the first to discover how to enable one medium or to release the power of another.
Marshall McLuhan
