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Means 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.
- 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.
More Means Quotes
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it. — J. J. Abrams
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made… — J. J. Abrams
- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams
- In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand. — Neil Armstrong
- So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to… — Antonin Artaud
- The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way or another,… — Bashar al-Assad
- That's a problem. I mean, like any sort of growing startup organization, we are sort of overwhelmed by our growth. And that… — Julian Assange