Marshall McLuhan Quotes

We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.

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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!

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A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and
understanding.

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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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In Jesus Christ, there is no distance or separation between the medium and the message: it is the one case where we can say that the medium and the message are fully one and the same.

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

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Art is anything you can get away with.

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The present is only faced in any generation by the artist.

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Art is whatever you can get away with.

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The job of art is not to store moments of experience but to explore environments that are otherwise invisible. Art is not a retrieval system of precious moments of past cultures. Art has a live, ongoing function.

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Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness.

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