# Quote — Marshall McLuhan, The Medium is the Massage

> There is absolutely no inevitability, so long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening. [A chapter sub-heading attributed by McLuhan to Alfred North Whitehead]

- Author: [Marshall McLuhan](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marshall-mcluhan.md)
- Book: [The Medium is the Massage](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marshall-mcluhan/the-medium-is-the-massage.md)
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> Art is whatever you can get away with.

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> 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, terror. Speech is a social chart of this bog. (p. 48)

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