Marshall Mcluhan Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Marshall Mcluhan quotes, Marshall Mcluhan sayings, and Marshall Mcluhan proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding. Marshall McLuhan
We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us. Marshall McLuhan
Even mud gives the illusion of depth. Marshall McLuhan
When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves. Marshall McLuhan
Any breakdown is a breakthrough. Marshall McLuhan
As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.' Marshall McLuhan
Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist. Marshall McLuhan
All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values. Marshall McLuhan
Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think. Marshall McLuhan
When information overload occurs, pattern recognition is how to determine truth. Marshall McLuhan
Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments. Marshall McLuhan
Jokes are grievances. Marshall McLuhan
It is perhaps typical of very creative minds that they hit very large nails not quite on the head. Marshall McLuhan
There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew. Marshall McLuhan
Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance. Marshall McLuhan
The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way. Marshall McLuhan
It is always the psychic and social grounds, brought into play by each medium or technology, that readjust the balance of the hemispheres and of human sensibilities into equilibrium with those grounds. Marshall McLuhan
It's misleading to suppose there's any basic difference between education & entertainment . This distinction merely relieves people of the responsibility of looking into the matter. Marshall McLuhan
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 means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes. Marshall McLuhan
Affluence creates poverty. Marshall McLuhan
Money is a poor man’s credit card. Marshall McLuhan
The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village. Marshall McLuhan
By swimming with the current, one can emerge from the gyre and live to see a new day. Marshall McLuhan
Money is a poor man's credit card. Marshall McLuhan
Radio affects most intimately, person-to-person, offering a world of unspoken communication between writer-speaker and the listener. Marshall McLuhan
A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding. Marshall McLuhan
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 in their old perceptual attitudes. Marshall McLuhan
One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humor. Marshall McLuhan
The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds. Marshall McLuhan
The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf. Marshall McLuhan