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

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Source : Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

Marshall McLuhan

#Media Quotes #Perception Quotes #Arbitrary Quotes

“George Herbert Walker Bush. He was a pretty-pretty great President and anything but.”
“Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don't even look at one another. They are just a lot of isolated individuals jiggling in a kind of self-hypnosis and dancing with others only to remind themselves that we are not completely alone in this world.”
“As soon as I know how to do something, I usually get bored with it.”
“Peacekeeping is not a job for soldiers, but only soldiers can do it.”
“People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves.”
“My greatest accomplishment is Exodus. It changed a lot of peoples lives, it changed the conception of the Jewish people in the international scene.”
“As far as my solo record, I don't want a gold record or anything, I'm happy to be small and to have the people appreciate the music who really like me for being me.”
“Prayer concerns God, whose purposes and plans are conditioned on prayer. His will and His glory are bound up in praying.”

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