Marshall McLuhan

All media work us over completely.

— Marshall McLuhan

Affluence creates poverty.

— Marshall McLuhan

Our permanent address is tommorrow.

— Marshall McLuhan

Even mud gives the illusion of depth.

— Marshall McLuhan

I do not explain, I explore.

— Marshall McLuhan

Money is a poor man's credit card.

— Marshall McLuhan

Any breakdown is a breakthrough.

— Marshall McLuhan

If it works, it's obsolete.

— Marshall McLuhan

A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.

— Marshall McLuhan

All words, in every language, are metaphors.

— Marshall McLuhan

Faced with information overload, we have no alternative but pattern-recognition.

— Marshall McLuhan

“We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.”

— Marshall McLuhan

The future of work consists of learning a living.

— Marshall McLuhan

New media are new archetypes, at first disguised as degradations of older media.

— Marshall McLuhan

The artist is a person who is expert in the training of perception.

— Marshall McLuhan

It is possible to deal with the entire environment as a work of art.

— Marshall McLuhan

Ads push the principle of noise all the way to the plateau of persuasion. They are quite in accord with the procedures…

— Marshall McLuhan

Time’ has ceased, 'space' has vanished. We now live in a global village... a simultaneous happening

— Marshall McLuhan

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is a hallucinating idiot...for he sees what no one else does: things that,…

— Marshall McLuhan

The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan…

— Marshall McLuhan

“Someone asked me if I really believed there was life after death. I replied: Do you really believe there is any life…

— Marshall McLuhan

Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments.

— Marshall McLuhan

Phenomenology is dialectic in ear-mode - a massive and decentralized quest for roots, for ground.

— Marshall McLuhan

We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.

— Marshall McLuhan

It is always the psychic and social grounds, brought into play by each medium or technology, that readjust the balance of the…

— Marshall McLuhan

I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied…

— Marshall McLuhan

“As the Western world has invested every aspect of its waking life with visual order, with procedures and spaces that are uniform,…

— Marshall McLuhan

“That outering or uttering of sense which is language and speech is a tool which “made it possible for man to accumulate…

— Marshall McLuhan

People hope that if they scream loudly enough about "values" then others will mistake them for serious, sensitive souls who have higher…

— Marshall McLuhan

The hallucinogenic world, in environmental terms, can be considered as a forlorn effort of man to match the speed of power of…

— Marshall McLuhan

The meaning of experience is typically one generation behind the experience. The content of new situations, both private and corporate, is typically…

— Marshall McLuhan

“The student of media soon comes to expect the New Media of any period whatever to be classed as 'pseudo' by those…

— Marshall McLuhan

“The poet, the artist, the sleuth - whoever sharpens our perception tends to be antisocial; rarely "well-adjusted", he cannot go along with…

— Marshall McLuhan

If men were able to be convinced that art is a precise advance knowledge of how to cope with the psychic and…

— Marshall McLuhan

“I expect to see the coming decades transform the planet into an art form; the new man, linked in a cosmic harmony…

— Marshall McLuhan

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…

— Marshall McLuhan

“At every turn, while he was investigating the background for his study of Thomas Nashe, he would encounter the Church — what…

— Marshall McLuhan

During the Second War, the U.S.O. sent special issues of the principal American magazines to the Armed Forces, with the ads omitted.…

— Marshall McLuhan

The artist is engaged constantly in building anti-environments. (And, by the way, the Courtly Love people were engaged in making love itself…

— Marshall McLuhan

I am a Christian according to my conscience in belief,in purpose and wish;Mnot of course by the orthodox standard. But I am…

— Marshall McLuhan