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“In television, images are projected at you. You are the screen. The images wrap around you. You are the vanishing point.”

Marshall McLuhan

Variant: In television, images are projected at you. You are the screen. The images wrap around you. You are the vanishing point. (p. 125)
Source: 1960s, The Medium is the Message (1967), p. 125

“If we sit and talk in a dark room, words suddenly acquire new meanings and different textures…and on the radio. Given only the sound of a play, we have to fill in all of the senses, not just the sight of the action. So much do-it-yourself, or completion and “closure” of action, develops a kind of independent isolation in the young that makes them remote and inaccessible.””

Marshall McLuhan

Source: 1960s, Understanding Media (1964), p. 264

“Chinese script is not visual but iconic and tactile. It does not disturb the tribal bonds.”

Marshall McLuhan

Source: 1970s, Culture Is Our Business (1970), p. 72

“Media, by altering the environment, evoke in us unique ratios of sense perception…When these ratios change, men change.”

Marshall McLuhan

1960s, The Medium is the Message (1967)

“Manuscript culture is conversational if only because the writer and his audience are physically related by the form of publication as performance.”

Marshall McLuhan

Source: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 96

“The bias of each medium of communication is far more distorting than the deliberate lie.”

Marshall McLuhan

JQ. Journalism quarterly, Volume 50, Association for Education in Journalism, 1973, p. 145
1970s

“We are not Argus-eyed, but Argus-eared.”

Marshall McLuhan

Source: 1980s, Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988), p. 69

“The manuscript shaped medieval literary conventions at all levels.”

Marshall McLuhan

Source: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 99

“Today we experience, in reverse, what pre-literate man faced with the advent of writing.”

Marshall McLuhan

Source: 1990s and beyond, A McLuhan Sourcebook (1995), p. 273

“It is the poets and painters who react instantly to a new medium like radio or TV.”

Marshall McLuhan

Source: 1960s, Understanding Media (1964), p. 53

“The stock market was created by the telegraph and the telephone, and its panics are engineered by carefully orchestrated stories in the press.”

Marshall McLuhan

Source: 1960s, Counterblast (1969), p. 106

“Typography extended its character to the regulation and fixations of languages.”

Marshall McLuhan

Variant: Typography extended its character to the regulation and fixation of languages. (p. 229)
Source: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 260

“The only cool PR is provided by one's enemies. They toil incessantly and for free.”

Marshall McLuhan

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1970s, Culture Is Our Business (1970)

“I neither approve nor disapprove. I merely try to understand. Sexual freedom is as natural to newly tribalized youth as drugs.”

Marshall McLuhan

1960s, Playboy Interview (1969)

“Nobody can doubt that the entire range of applied science contributes to the very format of a newspaper. But the headline is a feature which began with the Napoleonic Wars. The headline is a primitive shout of rage, triumph, fear, or warning, and newspapers have thrived on wars ever since.”

Marshall McLuhan

Source: 1950s, The Mechanical Bride (1951), p. 7

“Man works when he is partially involved. When he is totally involved he is at play or leisure.”

Marshall McLuhan

1990s and beyond, "The Agenbite of Outwit" (1998)

“Literacy affects the physiology as well as the psychic life of the African.”

Marshall McLuhan

Source: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 38

“The divorce of poetry and music was first reflected by the printed page.”

Marshall McLuhan

Source: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 227

“Until more than two centuries after printing nobody discovered how to maintain a single tone or attitude throughout a prose composition.”

Marshall McLuhan

Source: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 154

“All media of communications are cliches serving to enlarge man's scope of action, his patterns of associations and awareness. These media create environments that numb our powers of attention by sheer pervasiveness.”

Marshall McLuhan

1970s, From Cliché to Archetype (1970)