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
In Los Angeles, parenting is a competitive sport. From Beverly Hills baby boutiques to kids' yoga classes, L.A. fuses high style, industrial-strength… — Shawn Amos Copy Share Image
What are the characteristics of today's world so that one may recognize it by them?" It pays pensions and borrows money: credit… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
“The highest point reached by contemplative [anschauende] materialism, that is, materialism which does not comprehend sensuousness as practical activity, is the contemplation… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Historical materialism has every reason to distinguish itself sharply from bourgeois habits of thought. Its founding concept is not progress but actualization.” — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Let us not forget that revolutions are accomplished through people, although they be nameless. Materialism does not ignore the feeling, thinking, and… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
“Methodological naturalism is a “ground rule” of science today which requires scientists to seek explanations in the world around us based upon… — Robert T. Pennock Copy Share Image
“If we were to gain God's perspective, even for a moment, and were to look at the way we go through life… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
“We are born, we suffer, we die. However, love is a possibility for us all and, for some few, there is also… — Susan Trott Copy Share Image
Each time you go to the grocery store with your kids, it is a potential learning opportunity. In order not to overemphasize… — Bill Rancic Copy Share Image
The Drama Years is filled with heart-stirring stories, just-been-there advice from recent teens and practical, actionable tips for parents. It's full of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The key to liberation from the power of materialism is not an exodus from culture - abandoning Wall Street or leaving the… — R. Kent Hughes Copy Share Image
The organization controlling the material equipment of our everyday life is such that what in itself would enable us to construct it… — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of nothings. To say that the human soul, angels, god, are immaterial, is to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“and I am sure that food is much more generally entertaining than scenery. Do you give in, as Walt Whitman would say,… — Robert Louis Stevenson 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
This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
Buddhism has always been a religion for people who've worked their way through a cycle of materialism and still feel discontented and… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking all their… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“reduce the depressive, isolating effects of a materialist mindset by avoiding its stimulants -- most obviously, advertising. One method: "Watch less TV.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm less influenced by any of [Karl] Marx's ideas today than I've ever been in my life, and most significantly Marx's theory… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
“Capitalism has turned human beings into commodities. To the owner of a restaurant: the cook and a bag of potatoes are equally… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“For the genuine materialist there is no fundamental, but only a gradual, an “evolutionary” difference, between man and a pest, a noxious… — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn 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
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
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
“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
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
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
The closed circle of materialism is clear to us now - aspirations become wants, wants become needs, and self-gratification becomes a bottomless… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
Materialism is the recognition of "objects in themselves", or outside the mind; ideas and sensations are copies of images of those objects. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
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