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One Quotes by Marshall McLuhan
- The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving toward the grand fallacy.
- Arists in various fields are always the first to discover how to enable one medium or to release the power of another.
- A new medium is never an addition to an old one, nor does it leave the old one in peace. It never ceases to oppress…
- It is one of the peculiar characteristics of the photograph that it isolates single moments in time.
- One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humor.
- Except for light, all other media come in pairs, with one acting as the "content" of the other, obscuring the operation of both.
- The alphabet was one thing when applied to clay or stone, and quite another when set down on light papyrus.
- 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…
- The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.
- Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made…
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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…
More One Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle