All Marshall McLuhan Quotes
- The electric light is pure information. It is a medium without a message Electric
- Most people are alive in an earlier time, but you must be alive in our own time. Alive
- 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… Allow
- Transmitted at the speed of light, all events on this planet are simultaneous. In the electric environment of information all events are simultaneous, there is… All
- Violence is the quest for identity. When identity disappears with technological innovation, violence is the natural recourse. Disappear
- The artist is a person who is expert in the training of perception. Artist
- 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… Anticipate
- Education is civil defence against media fallout. Civil
- It is possible to deal with the entire environment as a work of art. Art
- In experimental art, men are given the exact specifications of coming violence to their own psyches from their own counter-irritant or technology... But the counter-irritant… Art
- 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… Body
- We go forward looking in the rearview mirror. Forward
- What we call art would seem to be specialist artifacts for enhancing human perception. Art
- The artist must ever play and experiment with new means of arranging experience, even though the majority of his audience may prefer to remain fixed… Arranging
- The new media are not ways of relating to us the 'real' world; they are the real world and they reshape what remains of the… Media
- All the new media are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumptions. All
- Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century. Ads
- All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values. All
- A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding. Analytics
- There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew. All
- Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it. Baby
- 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… Abdicate
- We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us. Behold
- Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either. Anyone
- Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness. Assumption