Quotes by Marshall Mcluhan

Marshall Mcluhan

Marshall Mcluhan

Canadian professor and philosopher

Lived from: 1911 - 1980

Category: Scientists Country: FlagCanada

Born: 21 july 1911 Died: 31 december 1980

  • Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness.
  • If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.

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  • A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion.
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  • A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.
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  • A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.
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  • Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.
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  • Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century.
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  • American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.
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  • Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression.
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  • Art at its most significant is a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen.
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  • 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.
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  • Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.
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  • Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it.
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  • Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.
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  • For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.
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  • Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.
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  • Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness.
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  • If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.
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  • It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic.
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  • It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudosimplicities of brutal directness.
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  • Jokes are grievances.
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  • Money is a poor man's credit card.
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What are the most famous quotes from Marshall Mcluhan?

The two most famous quotes from Marshall Mcluhan are:

  • "A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion."
  • "A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding."

When did Marshall Mcluhan live?

Marshall Mcluhan was born in 1911 and died in the year 1980.