To say that "the camera cannot lie" is merely to underline the multiple deceits that are now practised in its name.
Marshall McluhanRead
I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote suggests that one's thoughts and expressions can be complex and may not fully reflect personal beliefs.
Marshall McLuhan's quote expresses the idea that individuals can have conflicting thoughts or opinions, and what they articulate may not always align with their true beliefs or feelings. This reflects the complexities of human communication and cognition, where language and thought can sometimes diverge, leading to a nuanced understanding of both personal and societal discussions.
Themes
ComplexityThoughtsCommunicationBeliefsSelf-Reflection
In practice
Example use cases
In a discussion about free speech, this quote can highlight the nuance of expressing opinions.
More from Marshall Mcluhan
All quotes βA point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.
Marshall McluhanRead
In big industry new ideas are invited to rear their heads so they can be clobbered at once. The idea department of a big firm is a sort of lab for isolating dangerous viruses.
Marshall McluhanRead
The news automatically becomes the real world for the TV user and is not a substitute for reality, but is itself an immediate reality.
Marshall McluhanRead
Faced with information overload, we have no alternative but pattern-recognition.
Marshall McluhanRead
The poet, the artist, the sleuth, whoever sharpens our perception tends to antisocial; rarely 'well adjusted,' he cannot go along with currents and trends.
Marshall McluhanRead
Similar quotes
My life is not this steeply sloping hour, in which you see me hurrying. Much stands behind me; I stand before it like a tree; I am only one of my many mouths, and at that, the one that will be still the soonest. I am the rest between two notes, which are somehow always in discord because Deathβs note wants to climb overβ but in the dark interval, reconciled, they stay there trembling. And the song goes on, beautiful.
Rainer Maria RilkeRead
Only a life of goodness and honesty leaves us feeling spiritually healthy and human.
Harold S. KushnerRead
Humanity? Humanity is not concerned with us. Today anything is allowed. Anything is possible.
Elie WieselRead
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
Mark TwainRead
Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea.
T. S. EliotRead
The Americans say that we are ungrateful-but I ask them for heaven's sake, what should we be grateful to them for-for murdering our fathers and mothers?-Or do they wish us to return thanks to them for chaining and handcuffing us, branding us, cramming fire down our throats, or for keeping us in slavery, and beating us nearly or quite to death to make us work in ignorance and miseries, to support them and their families. They certainly think we are a gang of fools.
David WalkerRead