Mcluhan Understanding Quotes & Sayings

A moral point of view too often serves as a substitute for understanding in technological matters. — Marshall McLuhan

The lotus is the most beautiful flower, whose petals open one by one. But it will only grow in the mud. In order to grow and gain wisdom, first you must have the mud
the obstacles of life and its suffering ... The mud speaks of the common ground that humans share, no matter what our stations in life ... Whether we have it all or we have nothing, we are all faced with the same obstacles: sadness, loss, illness, dying and death. If we are to strive as human beings to gain more wisdom, more kindness and more compassion, we must have the intention to grow as a lotus and open each petal one by one. — Goldie Hawn

Gil has put his book down and is gazing at something inside his head. — Meg Rosoff

Historical truth is that, and that alone, which reveals the forces that go to mould the social life of mankind. — Ahad Ha'am

All media work us over completely. They are so pervasive in their personal, political, economic, aesthetic, psychological, moral, ethical, and social consequences that they leave no part of us untouched, unaffected, unaltered. The medium is the massage. Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments. All media are extensions of some human faculty - psychic or physical. — Marshall McLuhan

Sometimes I get in writing moods and I want to write a song every couple of days. Then sometimes I may not write a song for three weeks. It's just according to how it's hitting me at the time. — Ashton Shepherd

I want to know why we exist and what I can do while I'm existing. Basically. it's learning how to exist, wholely, consciously. Growing up on fast food and television shows, you can easily forget to exist. You can even be treated as if you don't. — Jason Mraz

Prayer is the breath of your life which gives you the freedom to go and stay where you wish and to find the many signs which point out the way to a new land. — Henri Nouwen

Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior. — Marshall McLuhan

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

Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments. — Marshall McLuhan