A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

“The mind either perceives or judges. The acts are entirely different. When perceiving, a person is full of life, interested, curious, open and receptive. He experiences the world in a fully expanding spiral. But in judging a person is concerned with controls, regulating limits and precedents.”
Carl Gustav Jung
From the “Lists of One-Liners and Longer Jokes” list kept by Magaret Stewart and George Thompson, 1973 and later. Original source could not be found; mis-cited in the list as W. Jung.
Year: 1973
Chapter: Percept
Compiled by William Kuhns
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