The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world. — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Possibly the words materialism and spirituality express two sides of one and the same fact. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
There is only one reason an intelligent person doesn't believe in miracles. He or she believes in materialism. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“A woman who holds her head up too high, is trying to breathe from her own pollution.” — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“There is nothing behind the curtains of religions, people put there whatever their imaginations can fathom” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“Life is less a burden without an absolute quest for material possessions” — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
“Most women have low standards. All they strive for is a highly paid man.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“In post-Nietzschean spirit, the West appears to be busily undermining its own erstwhile metaphysical foundations with an unholy mélange of practical materialism,… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
The church is challenging such negative cultural elements as superstition, rugged individualism, materialism, hedonism, permissiveness and utilitarianism. — Francis Arinze Copy Share Image
“Who killed Christianity in Europe? Was it, as (Max) Weber himself predicted, that the spirit of capitalism was bound to destroy the… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
As an explanation of the world materialism has a sort of insane simplicity. It has the quality of a madman's arguments; we… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
American life, in large cities, is a perpetual assault on the senses and the nerves; it is out of asceticism, out of… — Joseph McCarthy Copy Share Image
Matters of the heart are important to me. All this materialism and all the money and wealth are things that you don't… — Shari Arison Copy Share Image
..though one can be callous in Ireland one cannot be wholly opaque or material. An unearthly disturbance works in the spirit; reason… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“We do not teach history; we recreate the experience. We follow the chain of consequences - the tracks of the beast in… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The materialism, the brashness, the misogyny - everything in hip-hop is amplified. Misogyny is a good example of something that is completely… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
“Materialism, to some extent, requires that the consumer is not fully present or happy. In the moments of a spending frenzy you… — Patsy Rodenburg Copy Share Image
“Freeways flickering; cell phones chiming a tune We're riding to Utopia; road map says we'll be arriving soon Captains of the old… — The Eagles Copy Share Image
I am convinced that if we lose kids to the culture of drugs and materialism, of violence and war, it's because we… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
The rise of the prosperity gospel is one of the great challenges to the true message of Jesus Christ. While not an… — Ed McBain Copy Share Image
“Japan likewise put her hopes of victory on a different basis from that prevalent in the United States. (...) Even when she… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
The Rulers of Russia, then, are Jewish Politicians, and they are applying to the world the doctrine of Karl Marx (Mordecai). Marx,… — Bernard Lazare Copy Share Image
“I cannot understand why we idle discussing religion. If we are honest—and scientists have to be—we must admit that religion is a… — Paul A.M. Dirac Copy Share Image
“When I reached intellectual maturity, and began to ask myself whether I was an atheist, a theist, or a pantheist; a materialist… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“The spiritualist or the idealist believes in a spiritual essence of force; spiritual, that is to say phantomatic, inexplicable. The man of… — Joseph Dietzgen Copy Share Image
Now, my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose. I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“On the second and the third night there was again a ball -- this time in mid-ocean, during a furious storm sweeping… — Ivan Bunin Copy Share Image
It was only in the late nineteenth century and then the twentieth century, with the maturation of consumer capitalism, that a shift… — Rodney Clapp Copy Share Image
“If a faithful account was rendered of man's ideas upon the Divinity, he would be obliged to acknowledge, that for the most… — Paul Henri Thiry d'Holbach Copy Share Image
“I am wired by nature to love the same toys that the world loves. I start to fit in. I start to… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“For the most expensive way to realize an orgasm, men open their wallets. For the cheapest, they close their eyes.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul; but it has to come to heel. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
Materialism is the philosophy of the subject who forgets to take account of himself. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“A fast car can make women 'like' a man; and a man 'like' women … fast.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism. — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
“A lot of people spend a lot of time chasing a lot of things that will never bring lasting happiness.” — Wayne Gerard Trotman Copy Share Image
“The bitter truth is that most people are not into you; they're into what you have.” — Mitta Xinindlu Copy Share Image
I've always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
