“You have to pay for this view (onto which he looks while writing), so our expenses keep us pretty motivated to write.… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
With cheese being the only piece to look for our mind's peace, how can the lease of our homemade,self-created problems' cease?~Anuj Somany — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the… — Ben Nicholson Copy Share Image
“Life punishes those who have things in abundance by making them worry about petty things like: what to wear, or, which car… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Mitchell claimed that her materialist view leads to “humbleness.” But it is not humbling; it is dehumanizing. It essentially reduces humans to… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
I hear an almost inaudible but pervasive discontent with the price we pay for our current materialism. And I hear a fluttering… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
What need had the businessman to scribble or philosophize when he dominated the imagination of his time and the frantic materialism that… — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
It's also important, particularly for privileged kids, to involve them in charitable activities. It's a way of raising consciousness for your kids… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“It had never occurred to him that he should live in any other than what he would have called an ordinary way,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Let our lives be firmly rooted in Truth. Abstain from lies. In this dark age of materialism, adherence to truth is the… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
“I think at the heart of so much restlessness of the day is a spiritual vacuum. There is a yearning for meaningful… — Bill Moyes Copy Share Image
“Why are we so desperate to escape the material world? Is it really so bleak? Or could it be, rather, that we… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
“As persons, so Mournier maintained, we possess both a spiritual and temporal dimension; we exist in history, in relationship with others, but… — Robert Ellsberg Copy Share Image
We know that material things don't offer contentment, but we still buy more-more of the props and gadgets our culture tells us… — Susan L. Taylor Copy Share Image
This hour in history needs a dedicated circle of transformed nonconformists. Our planet teeters on the brink of annihilation; dangerous passions of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“We believed in another world, but we admitted the feebleness of our senses. Then came 'enlightenment,' and made everything so very clear… — E.T.A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
“Materialism is a conviction based not upon evidence or logic but upon what Carl Sagan (speaking of another kind of faith) called… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
“Any scientist that wants to change the prevailing paradigm is automatically branded a heretic, apostate, infidel, blasphemer, maverick or lunatic, exactly as… — Thomas Stark Copy Share Image
“It is not wonderful. It is an ugly world. Not like this one. Anarres is all dusty and dry hills. All meager,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“He could not believe that ordinary people in the Culture really wanted the war, no matter how they had voted. They had… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
“As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“The living cell is the most complex system of its size known to mankind. Its host of specialized molecules, many found nowhere… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
“the case is even stronger, and the parallel with madness is yet more strange. For it was our case against the exhaustive… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Being a fool the right way means not being the kind of fool who uncritically accepts so-called real-world truths that attempt to… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
“Materialism normalized as abundance chains freedom, and renders life a cripple. True abundance instills content not clutter, Actual needs of life are… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“A lot of people with a lot of ill gotten wealth may think that they have high net worth, but will simply… — Jeroninio Almeida Copy Share Image
When I think of some of the great renewals in the church I think of folks like St. Francis and Clare of… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
The ontology of materialism rested upon the illusion that the kind of existence, the direct "actuality" of the world around us, can… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
“But I do know we’re deficient in some way. We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don’t satisfy us. The… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Superstitions are all materialism, because they are all based on the consciousness of body, body, body. No spirit there. Spirit has no… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“On the whole I consider the constant need for delight and diversion in completely new things to be a sign of pettiness,… — Robert Walser Copy Share Image
Do not think me mad. It is not to make money that I believe a Christian should live. The noblest thing a… — David Livingstone Copy Share Image
“We have too quickly bought into the lie that we’ll be happier with more—and as a result, too often miss the joy… — Joshua Becker Copy Share Image
Materialism is decadent and degenerate only if the spirit of the nation has withered and if individual people are so unimaginative that… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
A person creating a space in his life for something that he doesnt deserve at all gets readily someone whom he doesnt… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
“A strange species we are, we can stand anything God and nature can throw at us save only plenty. If I wanted… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Only just now awakening after years of materialism, our soul is still infected with the despair born of unbelief, of lack of… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
“In a materialistic society, man is likely to value the opinion of a rich man over that of a poor one; even… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
We have to shift our emphasis from economic efficiency and materialism towards a sustainable quality of life and to healing of our… — Janet Holmes a Court Copy Share Image
“I knew how one climbing the mountain of worldly success can slip down into the river below without being conscious of the… — Diego Rivera Copy Share Image
