Australia's is a special kind of philistinism, an immovable materialism which puts art and ideas of any kind deliberately and firmly to… — Robin Boyd Copy Share Image
In the countries of Europe, one after another, the gentleman has been ousted by politicians and entrepreneurs, as materialism has given rewards… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
“[A]nd you may know how little God thinks of money by observing on what bad and contemptible characters he often bestows it."… — Thomas Guthrie Copy Share Image
Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no longer believes in God: for it is perhaps your own coldness… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Stuff comes and stuff goes and the only thing that matters in the end is who you are inside, what you do… — Claire Cross Copy Share Image
A materialistic person is ruthless with other people but kind to himself. A spiritual person is ruthless with himself but kind to… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
“You can’t really, truly love a thing. Love is only possible between beings or groups of beings. Love of a thing doesn’t… — Leland Dirks Copy Share Image
“I wish I understood why you buy all this stuff." "For the same reason I married you," she murmured. "To help pass… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
We wanted to more richly experience why we were alive, not just make a better life, and so people went in search… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
“...if I try to make only enough money for my family' immediate needs, it may violate Scripture. ...Even though earning just enough… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
If European symbols and traditions have grown tired, perfunctory and oppressively banal in Australia, or been drained of spirit and meaning by… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
“The current “thrust” of materialism is to escape the earth’s orbit, to flee the knowledge and the problems of our messy, bloody,… — Monica Sjöö Copy Share Image
Economy and ideology. The claim (presented as an essential postulate of historical materialism) that every fluctuation of politics and ideology can be… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
“And what, O Queen, are those things that are dear to a man? Are they not bubbles? Is not ambition but an… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
The moral peril to humanity of thoughtlessly accepting these conveniences [of materialism] (with their inherent disadvantages) as constituting a philosophy of life… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Universal appreciation of art... belongs to those countries and those ages which are not, or were not, ruled by materialism. Though travel… — Walter J. Phillips 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
“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
“Science,’ he informed me, ‘might not yet have all the answers, but it is the only verifiable—and hence meaningful—way of asking the… — David Zindell 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
“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
“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
“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
“There Bomar is, wherever he is, spending a fortune every day on liquor and beautiful women and expensive playthings, when he could… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Everything that I have becomes invisible in my search for everything that I don’t have. And when that happens, what I don’t… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“When you build a city near no mountains and no ocean, you get materialism and traditional religion. People have too much time… — Donald Miller 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
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
This is our most dangerous addiction - our addiction to things. For it is this addiction that underlies the materialism of our… — Russell Peters Copy Share Image
Individually, people are finding that a simpler lifestyle provides greater satisfaction than relentless pursuit of materialism. — Laurance Rockefeller Copy Share Image
Why should the simple fact of your having more money entitle you to a greater share of the Earth's limited natural resources? — Shekhar Kapur Copy Share Image
The steady pressure to consume, absorb, participate, receive, by eye, ear, mouth, and mail involves a cruelty to intestines, blood pressure, and… — Herbert Gold Copy Share Image
“Every year I collect a select amount of material possessions (baseball cards, coins, famous paraphernalia) to pass on to my children. In… — Akutra-Ramses Atenosis Cea Copy Share Image
“*I’m hustling* is a low self-esteem having man’s way of saying *I’m unemployed,* when answering a seemingly materialistic woman’s question as to… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana 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
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![“The moral peril to humanity of thoughtlessly accepting these conveniences [of materialism] (with their inherent disadvantages) as constituting a philosophy of life is now becoming apparent. For the implications of this disruptive materialism... are that human beings are nothing but bodies…” quote by Aldous Huxley](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/c3e/aldous-huxley-97_accepting_the-moral-peril-to-humanity-of-thoughtle_1947032.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)
