Marshall McLuhan Quotes About Perception
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What we call art would seem to be specialist artifacts for enhancing human perception.
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The artist is a person who is expert in the training of perception.
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Language always preserves a play or figure/ground relation between experience, and perception and its replay in expression.
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People hope that if they scream loudly enough about "values" then others will mistake them for serious, sensitive souls who have higher and nobler perceptions than ordinary people. Otherwise, why would they be screaming? Moral bitterness is a basic technique for endowing the idiot with dignity.
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The greatest propaganda in the world is our mother tongue, that is what we learn as children, and which we learn unconsciously. That shapes our perceptions for life. That is propaganda at its most extreme form.
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Typography tended to alter language from a means of perception and exploration to a portable commodity.
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The poet, the artist, the sleuth, whoever sharpens our perception tends to antisocial; rarely 'well adjusted,' he cannot go along with currents and trends.
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All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.
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Human perception is literally incarnation.
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