A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.
The price of eternal vigilance is indifference.
As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'
All media work us over completely.
The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.
It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.
Only the vanquished remember history.
We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.
Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.
Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness.
Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities.
Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.
In Jesus Christ, there is no distance or separation between the medium and the message: it is the one case where we can say that the medium and the message are fully one and the same.
The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.
Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.
Until writing was invented, man lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion, by primordial intuition, by terror. Speech is a social...
To see a man slip on a banana skin is to see a rationally structured system suddenly translated into a whirling machine.
At every turn, while he was investigating the background for his study of Thomas Nashe, he would encounter the Church — what Chesterton called (another book title) The Thing. It was everywhere. At one...
Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.
I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.