Marshall McLuhan Quotes

To think Being itself explicitly requires disregarding Being to the extent that it is only grounded and interpreted in terms of beings and for beings as their ground, as in all metaphysics.

About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.

Western Humanism does not ask the fundamental questions about the meaning and limits of personal experience. Humsniists leave aside the mysteries of contingency and transitoriness, for the certainties of research, production, consumption.

The world is nothing but 'world-as-meaning.

From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon.

The world is real. Consciousness is the illusion.

The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being.

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.

We do not say: Being is, time is, but rather: there is Being and there is time.

From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science.

Philosophy! the lumber of the schools.

Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.

And nothing is, but what is not.

The subject does not belong to the world; rather, it is a limit of the world.

I stick my finger into existence.. it smells of nothing. Where am I? Who am I? What is this thing called the world? What does this word mean?

Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.

In the case of Anathem, most of the research had to do with philosophy and metaphysics. Reading this sort of thing has never been my strong suit, so I actually had to be somewhat more "organized and results-driven" than is my habit. I just made up my mind that I was going to have to read some of these philosophy tomes, and I forced myself to read something like 10 pages a day until I had bashed my way through them.

Il n'y a pas d'autre univers qu'un univers humain, l'univers de la subjectivite humaine. There is no other universe except the human universe, the universe of human subjectivity.

What I am trying to do is to unmuddle the metaphysical.

Being is only Being for Dasein.

Nothingness haunts Being.

Whence? wither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy.

There is philosophy, which is about conceptual analysis - about the meaning of what we say - and there is all of this ... all of life.

Philosophy is the thoughts of men about human thinking, reasoning and imagining, and the real values in human existence.