Quote

I am curious to know what would happen if art were suddenly seen for what it is, namely, exact information of how to rearrange one's psyche in order to anticipate the next blow from our own extended faculties.

Marshall McLuhan

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Information
Namely
Happen
Anticipate
Seen
Exact
Next
Faculty
Art
Curiosity
Rearrange
Order
Curious
Psyche
Happens
Suddenly
Extended
Would
Blow
Faculties

More quotes by Marshall McLuhan

Image
The reader is the content of any poem or of the language he employs, and in order to use any of these forms, he must put them on.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
People who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to mischief.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
It is always the psychic and social grounds, brought into play by each medium or technology, that readjust the balance of the hemispheres and of human sensibilities into equilibrium with those grounds.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
The alphabet and print technology fostered and encouraged a fragmenting process, a process of specialism and detachment. Electric technology fosters and encourages unification and involvement.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
Money is a poor man's credit card.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
The mother tongue is propaganda.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
The circuited city of the future will not be the huge hunk of concentrated real estate created by the railway. It will take on a totally new meaning under conditions of very rapid movement. It will be an information megalopolis.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
Life. Consider the alternative.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
Why is it so easy to acquire the solutions of past problems and so difficult to solve current ones
Marshall McLuhan
Image
Any breakdown is a breakthrough.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
The movie stars and matinee idols are put into the public domain by photography. They become dreams that money can buy. They can be bought and thumbed more easily than public prostitutes.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
There is an enormous redundancy in every well-written book. With a well-written book I only read the right-hand page and allow my mind to work on the left-hand page. With a poorly written book I read every word.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
The greatest propaganda in the world is our mother tongue, that is what we learn as children, and which we learn unconsciously. That shapes our perceptions for life. That is propaganda at its most extreme form.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
Photography turns people into things and their image into a mass consumer product.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
While Poe and the Symbolists were exploring the irrational in literature, Freud had begun to explore the resonant figure/ground double-plot of the conscious and unconscious.
Marshall McLuhan