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Mean Quotes by Marshall McLuhan
- The artist is the person who invents the means to bridge between biological inheritance and the environments created by technological innovation.
- Like primitive, we now live in a global village of our own making, a simultaneous happening. It doesn't necessarily mean harmony and peace and quiet…
- Language as the technology of human extension, whose powers of division and separation we know so well, may have been the "Tower of Babel" by…
- Literacy, the visual technology, dissolved the tribal magic by means of its stress on fragmentation and specialization and created the individual.
- There are many people for whom 'thinking' necessarily means identifying with existing trends,
- Media are means of extending and enlarging our organic sense lives into our environment.
- 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…
- As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable…
- A typewriter is a means of transcribing thought, not expressing it.
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- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
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- Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence. — Aristotle
- Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures. — Aristotle
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- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
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- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams