"Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication."

--

Source : Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore (1967). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Gingko Pr Inc

Marshall McLuhan

#Communication Quotes #Men Quotes #Talking Quotes

“Life would be no better than candlelight tinsel and daylight rubbish if our spirits were not touched by what has been.”
“For years they have been using the role of 'sex object' as a cover while they spied out the land.”
“I that have love and no more Give you but love of you, sweet; He that hath more, let him give; He that hath wings, let him soar; Mine is the heart at your feet Here, that must love you to live.”
“Each year, several million people are looking for new clothes. The fashion they are looking at cannot be too expensive, but it has to be stylish.”
“The person in misery does not need a look that judges and criticizes but a comforting presence that brings peace and hope and life and says: 'you are a human person: important, mysterious, infinitely precious, what you have to say is important because it flows from a humn person; in you there are those seeds of the infinite, those germs of love... of beauty which must rise from the earth of your misery so humanity be fulfilled. If you do not rise then something will be missing... Rise again because we all need you... be loved beloved.'”
“...I use Dr.Ducks Ax Wax on my entire collection of vintage guitars ... it's the best polish I've ever used...”
“I have never seen an angel. Show me an angel, and I'll paint one.”

Source : Quoted by Vincent van Gogh in a letter to brother Theo on July 1885. "The letters of Vincent van Gogh". Book edited by Ronal de Leeuw, p. 302, 1996.
“Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.”

Source : Eduard Hanslick (1957). “Vom Musikalisch-Schönen”, Bobbs-Merrill Company

You may also like:

Alvin Toffler
Writer
Derrick de Kerckhove
Author
Douglas Coupland
Novelist
Harold Innis
Author
Jean Baudrillard
Philosopher
Neil Postman
Author
Theodor Adorno
Sociologist
Walter Benjamin
Literary critic
Walter J. Ong
Historian