“The wisdom of nature continues to teach humanity that the material...is immaterial.” — Jason Versey Copy Share Image
“Materialism, it must be understood, is a premise of science, not a finding.” — Gordon White Copy Share Image
“Let temporal things be in the use, eternal things in the desire.” — Thomas à Kempis Copy Share Image
Like Gandhi, my husband had struggled with the issue of materialism. — Coretta Scott King Copy Share Image
I try to educate people about materialism through my work. I try to show them real visual luxury. — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
What is necessary to keep providing good care to nature has completely fallen into ignorance during the materialism era. — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
“The problems afflicting a nation are always in equal measure spiritual crises.” — Ron Suskind Copy Share Image
If materialism is true, it seems to me that we cannot know that it is true. If my opinions are the result… — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
If you can't afford to give something away, you don't own it, it owns you. If you can't afford to sell it,… — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
You can be an extreme materialist, thinking that economic development ultimately determines everything; then you are truly ideological. — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“Some people, when there’s a threat of everything they have being ripped away at a moments notice, they place value on the… — Benjamin R. Smith Copy Share Image
Philosophers have argued for centuries about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but materialists have always known… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“You [demagogues] are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thoroughly stir up the slime,… — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
All men need something to poetize and idealize their life a little-something which they value for more than its use, and which… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
'Material' is meant to be a fun, lighthearted song about the tiny bit of materialism that's in all of us. The message… — Yuna Copy Share Image
The problem isn't materialism as such. Rather it is the underlying assumption that full satisfaction can arise from gratifying the senses alone.… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
If we understand the dangers of materialism, it will help liberate us to experience the joys of Christ-centered stewardship. Jesus speaks of… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
“Rich people don’t have to have a life-and-death relationship with the truth and its questions; they can ignore the truth and still… — Sergio Troncoso Copy Share Image
“And therefore the idea of serving mankind, of the brotherhood and oneness of people, is fading more and more in the world,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Brothers Karamazov Copy Share Image
And I, a materialist who does not believe in the starry heaven promised to a human being, for this dog and for… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
Whats the biggest commercial for aggression, sexuality and materialism? What gets pumped into these kids heads? Taking someone elses girl, which is… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
“The more narrow-minded a system is the more it will please worldly-wise people. Thus the system of the materialists, the doctrine of… — Novalis Copy Share Image
“Wasn't modernism's greatest coup to destroy the notion of progression? And yet it still comes back in history books, in dialectical materialism,… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
“Contrary to what the bourgeois and liberal polemics claim, the warrior idea may not be reduced to materialism, nor is it synonymous… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
[M]an has been accustomed, ever since he was a boy, to having a dozen incompatible philosophies dancing about together inside his head.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Each of these imperatives has a tendency to degenerate into an excuse for greed and materialism in the absence of the other.… — Greg Forster Copy Share Image
“In thinking about these questions I have been stimulated by criticisms of the prevailing scientific world picture... by the defenders of intelligent… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
“The shame and the downfall of a modern materialistic society is her inability to treasure, care for, admire, adore, cherish, value, revere,… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“Those who have been forced to study 'dialectical materialism', the strange concoction that was supposed to form the philosophical foundation of Marxism… — Eugene V. Koonin Copy Share Image
“Because there is nothing, nothing on Urras that we Anarresti need! We left with empty hands, a hundred and seventy years ago,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“But even in the much-publicized rebellion of the young against the materialism of the affluent society, the consumer mentality is too often… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Philosophers have argued for centuries about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but materialists have known all… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“We are being called upon to act against a prevailing culture, to undermine our own entrenched tendency to accumulate and to consume,… — Lyanda Lynn Haupt Copy Share Image
“A man's Self is the sum total of all that he can call his, not only his body and his psychic powers,… — William James Copy Share Image
“Fidelity surveyed a group with at least $1 million investment assets excluding real estate and retirement. 42% of them did not FEEL wealthy.” — Christopher Hayes Copy Share Image
“By banishing metaphysics, materialism has no longer an ethical system, knows no longer the distinction between good and evil, possesses no moral… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Equally condemned, in wealthy Western nations, is materialism that degrades the human mind and spirit - that can, in fact, in an… — H.W. Crocker III Copy Share Image
“Worst of all carnivores are the humans, There is no end to their appetite. Animals no longer partake once they are full,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
![“You [demagogues] are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thoroughly stir up the slime, their fishing is good; in the same way it's only in troublous times that you line your pockets.” quote by Aristophanes](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/4f7/aristophanes-3340_demagoguery_you-demagogues-are-like-the-fishers-for_87488.jpg)
![“[M]an has been accustomed, ever since he was a boy, to having a dozen incompatible philosophies dancing about together inside his head. He doesn't think of doctrines as primarily "true" or "false," but as "academic" or "practical," "outworn" or "contemporary," "conventional" or "ruthless." Jargon…” quote by Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/008/anonymous-1_academic_m-an-has-been-accustomed-ever-since-he-w_984135.jpg)
