Quote

North Americans have a peculiar bias. They go outside to be alone and they go home to be social.

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
Peculiar
North
Americans
Outside
Alone
Social
Home
Bias

More quotes by Marshall McLuhan

Image
It has always been the artist who realizes that the future is the present and uses his work to prepare the grounds for it
Marshall McLuhan
Image
It is possible to deal with the entire environment as a work of art.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
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
Image
The media have substituted themselves for the older world.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
The rythms of typing favour short, concise sentences, sentences with oral form.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
Artists in various fields are always the first to discover how to enable one medium or to release the power of another.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
Once introduced discontinuity, once challenge any of the properties of visual space, and as they flow from each other, the whole conceptual framework collapses.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is a hallucinating idiot...for he sees what no one else does: things that, to everyone else, are not there.
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
I do not explain, I explore.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
First we shape our tools, thereafter they shape us
Marshall McLuhan
Image
We have be-come irrevocably involved with, and responsible for, each other.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
Once you see the boundaries of your environment, they are no longer the boundaries of your environment.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
The present is always invisible because its environmental. No environment is perceptible, simply because it saturates the whole field of attention.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
Gutenberg made everybody a reader. Xerox makes everybody a publisher.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humor.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
Literacy, the visual technology, dissolved the tribal magic by means of its stress on fragmentation and specialization and created the individual.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
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
Image
Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the individual and the critical awareness of the ground rules of society. The amateur can afford to loose.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
Why is it so easy to acquire the solutions of past problems and so difficult to solve current ones
Marshall McLuhan