Marshall McLuhan quotes - page 20

The poet, the artist, the sleuth, whoever sharpens our perception tends to antisocial rarely 'well adjusted,' he cannot go along with currents and trends. (Marshall McLuhan)
It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudosimplicities of brutal directness. View quote
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What goes on inside the school is an interruption of education. View quote
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Education is civil defence against media fallout. View quote
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As a rule, I always look for what others ignore. View quote
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Those conspiracies that are too incredible to be believed, are by the same right, those which most often succeed. View quote
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Most people are alive in an earlier time, but you must be alive in our own time. View quote
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I may be wrong, but I'm never in doubt. View quote
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All the new media are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumptions. View quote
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The school system is the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing. View quote
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Television is teaching all the time. Does more educating than the schools and all the institutions of higher learning. (Marshall McLuhan)
The price of eternal vigilance is indifference. View quote
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It is possible to deal with the entire environment as a work of art. View quote
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The artist is a person who is expert in the training of perception. View quote
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Our motor car is our supreme form of privacy when we are away from home. View quote
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Except for light, all other media come in pairs, with one acting as the content of the other, obscuring the operation of both. View quote
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Education in a technological world of replaceable and expendable parts is neuter. View quote
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Any ad consciously attended to is comical. Ads are not meant for conscious consumption. They are intended as subliminal pills for the subconsious in order to exercise an hypnotic spell, especially on sociologists. View quote
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The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad; it is the way they are used that determines their value. View quote
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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 which men sought to scale the highest heavens. Today computers hold out the promise of a means of instant tr. View quote
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Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self-employment and artistic autonomy. (Marshall McLuhan)
We impose the form of the old on the content of the new. View quote
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When information rubs against information the results are startling and effective. The perrenial quest for involvement, fill-in, takes many forms. View quote
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The 'expert' is the man who stays put. View quote
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The winner is one who knows when to drop out in order to get in touch. View quote
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