The best Quotes by Marshall McLuhan

The best Quotes by Marshall McLuhan

Herbert Marshall McLuhan (July 21, 1911 – December 31, 1980) was a Canadian philosopher whose work is among the cornerstones of the study of media theory.

I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.

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Language - a form of organized stutter.

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Canada is a country of ingredients without a cuisine; we're a country with musicians without an indigenous instrument; Toronto's a city that doesn't even have a dish named after it.

He that traveleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.

Francis Bacon

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Traveling Languages

German literacy ought to be gently and reverently set aside among the dead languages, for only the dead have time to learn it.

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Germany Languages

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Garden Libraries

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Memories Death Grief & Condolence Day of the Dead

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Happiness Present

When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, you're the one wo is smiling and everyone else is crying.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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For every minute you are angry, you lose 60 seconds of happiness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Happiness Minutes

The one who lives in the memories of his loved ones can't be dead; dead is only who's forgotten.

Immanuel Kant

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Death Grief & Condolence Day of the Dead

By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.

Immanuel Kant

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

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Love Soul Friendship

To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake it is necessary to stand out in the cold.

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Snow Winter Coldness

For when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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To write a loveletter, you have to start without knowing what you're gonna write and end without knowing what you wrote.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Foolishness Quotes to think about

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

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Humanity Desire Knowledge Feelings & Emotions

By playing for one hour, you can get to know someone better, than by talking for a year.

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Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.

Friedrich Schiller in Don Carlos

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Youth Men Birthday Age

I fear nothing - nothing - but the boundaries of your love.

Friedrich Schiller in Intrigue and Love

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Love declerations

Big results require big ambitions.

Ambition Motivation

The sun is new each day.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

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Objectives Motivation

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

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Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.

Leonardo Da Vinci

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Crying & Tears Mind vs. Heart

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

Leonardo Da Vinci

Only love and death change all things.

Kahlil Gibran

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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

Kahlil Gibran

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Experience Scars

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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Intelligence Solitude & Loneliness Eagles

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

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He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

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Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

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