Quote

Food for the mind is like food for the body: the inputs are never the same as the outputs.

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
Never
Like
Outputs
Inputs
Output
Input
Food
Body
Mind

More quotes by Marshall McLuhan

Image
Except for light, all other media come in pairs, with one acting as the content of the other, obscuring the operation of both.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
For tribal man, space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
Whence did the wond'rous mystic art arise, / Of painting SPEECH, and speaking to the eyes? / That we by tracing magic lines are taught, / How to embody, and to colour THOUGHT?
Marshall McLuhan
Image
If it works, it's obsolete.
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
Canadians are the people who learned to live without the bold accents of the natural ego-trippers of other lands.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
North Americans have a peculiar bias. They go outside to be alone and they go home to be social.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
You can be a French Canadian or an English Canadian, but not a Canadian. We know how to live without an identity, and this is one of our marvellous resources.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
We impose the form of the old on the content of the new.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
the only people who have proof of their sanity are those who have been discharged from mental institutions
Marshall McLuhan
Image
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
Image
Violence is the quest for identity. When identity disappears with technological innovation, violence is the natural recourse.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
A nomadic society cannot experience enclosed space.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
Primitivism has become the vulgar cliché of much modern art and speculation.
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
Language always preserves a play or figure/ground relation between experience, and perception and its replay in expression.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
Nowadays there is no conversation at all. Teachers distrust talk as much as business men.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
The visual power of the phonetic alphabet is the translate other languages into itself is part of its power to invade right hemisphere (oral) cultures.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
One thing about which fish know exactly nothing is water, since they have no anti-environment which would enable them to perceive the element they live in.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
If the work of the city is the remaking or translating of man into a more suitable form than his nomadic ancestors achieved, then might not our current translation of our entire lives into the spiritual form of information seem to make of the entire.
Marshall McLuhan