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Body Quotes by Marshall McLuhan
- In Tetrad form, the artifact is seen to be not neutral or passive, bur an active logos or utterance of the human mind or body…
- The new media and technologies by which we amplify and extend ourselves constitute huge collective surgery carried out on the social body with complete disregard…
- For those for whom the sex act has come to seem mechanical and merely the meeting and manipulation of body parts, there often remains a…
- Physiologically, man in the normal use of technology (or his variously extended body) is perpetually modified by it and in turn finds ever new ways…
- 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…
More Body Quotes
- Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on… — Aristotle
- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business.… — Mary Astell
- The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a… — Chinua Achebe
- Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
- I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon
- Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions… — Saint Augustine