All Marshall McLuhan Quotes
- Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on… America
- One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you… Cope
- The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in… Advertiser
- We don't know who discovered water, but we know it wasn't the fish. Discovered
- With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree… Arrival
- 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,… Blind
- In a cool medium, the audience is an active constituent of the viewing or listening experience. A girl wearing open-mesh silk stockings or glasses is… Active
- All media are extensions of some human faculty- psychic or physical. All
- Our technology forces us to live mythically Force
- The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete in the urban compound. Article
- Our permanent address is tommorrow. Address
- 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… Anti
- There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening. Absolutely
- the only people who have proof of their sanity are those who have been discharged from mental institutions Been
- All media work us over completely. All
- Whence did the wond'rous mystic art arise, / Of painting SPEECH, and speaking to the eyes? / That we by tracing magic lines are taught,… Arise
- First we build the tools, then they build us. Build
- I am resolutely opposed to all innovation, all change, but I am determined to understand what’s happening. Because I don’t choose just to sit and… All
- We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future. Backwards
- Once you see the boundaries of your environment, they are no longer the boundaries of your environment. Boundaries
- The content or time-clothing of any medium or culture is the preceding medium or culture. Any
- Relativity theory forced the abandonment, in principle, of absolute space and absolute time. Abandonment
- The future of work consists of learning a living. Consists
- Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity. Big
- Invention is the mother of necessities. Business