Marshall McLuhan
agree myself say
“I don't necessarily agree with everything that I say.”
― Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980)
society honor live conformist dead troublemaker
“Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.”
― Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980)
become behold shape tools
“We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.”
― Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980)
land blind one-eyed hallucinate idiot see things
“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 (1911-1980)
american youth driving license voting democracy
“American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.”
― Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980)
point of view dangerous substitute understand
“A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.”
― Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980)
passenger crew spaceship earth
“There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.”
― Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980)
assumption useless
“Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness.”
― Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980)
argument ruined fool knowledge
“Many a good argument is ruined by some fool who knows what he is talking about.”
― Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980)
people proof sanity discharge mental institution
“the only people who have proof of their sanity are those who have been discharged from mental institutions”
― Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980)
politics imagery replace power
“Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery.
The politician will be only too happy to abdicate
in favor of his image, because the image will
be much more powerful than he could ever be.”
― Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980)
words language metaphor
“All words, in every language, are metaphors.”
― Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980)
language intelligence wheel feet move body
“Language does for intelligence what the wheel does for the feet and the body. It enables them to move from thing to thing with greater ease and speed and ever less involvement.”
― Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980)
works obsolete
“if it works it's obsolete”
― Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980)
advertisement news good newspaper
“Advertisements constitute the only 'good news' in the newspaper.”
― Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980)
language metaphor translate experience skill labour
“Language is metaphor in the sense that it not only stores but translates experience from one mode into another. Money is metaphor in the sense that it stores skill and labour and also translates one skill into another.”
― Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980)
discovery 21st century man live speed light
“The greatest discovery of the 21st century will be the discovery that Man was not meant to live at the speed of light.”
― Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980)