Marshall McLuhan — Philosophical Quotes

308 quotes · Philosopher, Media Theorist

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Marshall McLuhan Quotes

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Marshall McLuhan

Philosopher, Media Theorist

Philosophical

“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.”

Want Business Curves

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Marshall McLuhan

Philosopher, Media Theorist

Philosophical

“If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.”

Age Birthday Chairs

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Philosophical

“All advertising advertises advertising.”

Advertising

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Philosophical

“It is possible to deal with the entire environment as a work of art.”

Art Environment

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Philosophical

“Explore the situation. Statements are expendable. Don't keep on looking in the rearview mirror and defending the status quo which is outmoded the moment it happened.”

Moments Mirrors Status Quo

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Philosophical

“The literate man is a sucker for propaganda...You cannot propagandize a native. You can sell him rum and trinkets, but you cannot sell him ideas.”

Men Ideas Propaganda

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Philosophical

“Any breakdown is a breakthrough.”

Illness Mental Illness

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Philosophical

“Anything that's popular is a rear-view image.”

Views Independence

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Philosophical

“All forms of violence are quests for identity. When you live on the frontier, you have no identity. You're a nobody.”

Identity Quests

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Philosophical

“Some of my fellow academics are very hostile, but I sympathize with them. They've been asleep for 500 years and they don't like anybody who comes along and stirs them up.”

Years Fellows Hostile

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Philosophical

“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 in.”

Water Elements Environment

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Philosophical

“Today's child is growing up absurd, because he lives in two worlds, and neither of them inclines him to grow up. Growing up--thatis our new work, and it is total. Mere instruction will not suffice.”

Children Education Growing Up

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