Marshall McLuhan Quotes

• 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 to it.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Topics in Art

• 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.

  Marshall McLuhan

• Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn’t know the first thing about either.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Topics in Education

• Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Topics in Love

• All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Tags in Media

• Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Topics in Art

• A typewriter is a means of transcribing thought, not expressing it.

  Marshall McLuhan

• 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.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Topics in Society

• If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist’s couch.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Topics in Age

• Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.

  Marshall McLuhan

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• Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today’s jobs with yesterday’s tools.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Topics in Age, Funny

• In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Topics in Age, Funny

• 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

  Topics in Age, Funny

• 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

  Topics in Business

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Marshall McLuhan (74)

Birth:	21st July, 1911
Death:	31st December, 1980
Nationality:	Canadian
Profession:	Philosopher

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