What is assumed to be the materialisation of the inner truth of the self is in fact an idealisation of the material… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
“Needs multiply as they are met. Woe to the man who would live a disentangled life. Be on guard, my soul, of… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
“Materialism—an attachment to physical goods beyond their practical value—was a trap; a chain to ensnare the foolish with their own greed.” — Drew Karpyshyn Copy Share Image
Science has rolled its war wagons over the crushed myths of so many religious beliefs. It has marshaled its mechanics to explain… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
“The gods grant nothing more than life, So let us reject whatever lifts us To unbreathable heights, Eternal but flowerless.” — Pessoa Fernando Copy Share Image
You don't have to be a Christian to recognize that materialism does not match reality. Materialism is not true to universal human… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
Contemporary movies just drive me crazy. The violence and the sentimentality and the spiritual materialism and Theism and the incredible indulgence in… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
The sole "property" of matter with whose recognition philosophical materialism is bound up is the property of being an objective reality, of… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Some atheists are quite explicit that their atheism comes first. One of the most famous is Richard Lewontin, a professor of genetics,… — John Lennox Copy Share Image
“Physical comfort--materialism, if you like--is the enemy of any serious spirituality, I think. When we're warm and well fed, our souls can… — Lucinda Riley Copy Share Image
It's completely unsexy [Yello, "Oh Yeah" 1985]. It does capture that weird '80s materialism and "We're gonna get it on now" vibe.… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
That intense faith in another world, that intense hatred for this world, that intense power of renunciation, that intense faith in God,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Materialism blinds us to our spiritual poverty. Jesus rebuked the Laodicean Christians because although they were materially wealthy, they were desperately poor… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
“The man who cannot believe his senses, and the man who cannot believe anything else, are both insane, but their insanity is… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“When social critics deplore the materialism of our time and its preoccupation with money, fame, and superficial values, they overlook that the… — Edward M. Hallowell Copy Share Image
“The beginning of the most materialistic age in the history of the world, when wars would be fought without patriotism, when men… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
“Because he has finally realized that it is it and not him that is loved by the woman he loves, many a… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“When we see a good-looking woman with a not-so-good-looking man, we assume that the man must have a good bank balance. When… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Let us treasure up in our soul some of those things which are permanent..., not of those which will forsake us and… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
Do not think you need necessarily have as fine swords and clothing as your neighbor. As long as they are not disreputable,… — Hojo Soun Copy Share Image
It becomes necessary to learn how to clear the mind of all clouds, to free it of all useless ballast and debris… — Indra Devi Copy Share Image
“Most people do not mind having a house that is smaller and/or a car that is cheaper than their neighbours’, as long… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Art is not some inessential frippery - it is the nation's means of intelligently regarding itself. To cripple or stigmatize the arts… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Q: What is wrong with the world? A: Everybody pays attention to pictures of things. Nobody pays attention to things themselves.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Success with a small s is based on accumulation and materialism. Success with a large S is based on the unfoldment of… — Michael Beckwith Copy Share Image
“...in principle, one can predict everything in the universe solely from physical laws. Thus, the long-standing 'first cause' problem intrinsic in cosmology… — L.-Z. Fang Copy Share Image
More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the… — Jack Schwartz Copy Share Image
The materialist is sure that history has been simply and solely a chain of causation, just as the [lunatic] is quite sure… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Bulstrode's naïve way of conciliating piety and worldliness, the nothingness of this life and desirability of cut glass, the consciousness at… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Letting go of "stuff" allowed the world to collapse behind me as I moved, so I became nothing more or less than… — Dee Williams Copy Share Image
There is a thin line between Spirituality and Materialism. It's necessary to avoid obsession with either of the sides to maintain Perfection… — Sandeep Shergill Copy Share Image
The truth of faith about creation is radically opposed to the theories of materialistic philosophy. These view the cosmos as the result… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
democracy always makes for materialism, because the only kind of equality that you can guarantee to a whole people is, broadly speaking,… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
How right the working classes are in their "materialism." How right they are to realize that the belly comes before the soul,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Remember, philosophically speaking, Americans are mongrels —practical materialists but with a dreamy streak of divine approval.” — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“When selecting a one-night stand, a heterosexual woman who is materialistic is a trillion times more likely to choose a sexually unattractive… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Marxism is not only the theory of socialism, it is an integral world outlook, a philosophical system, from which Marx’s proletarian socialism… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
We are in the grip of a scientific materialism, caught in a vicious cycle where our security today seems to depend on… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“…I am inclined to think that these muscles and bones of mine would have gone off long ago to Megara or Boeotia—by… — Plato Copy Share Image
The 'Gossip Girl' idea and ideologies, like, they sort of encourage this certain kind of, like, materialism and superficiality that isn't, I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
![“It's completely unsexy [Yello, "Oh Yeah" 1985]. It does capture that weird '80s materialism and "We're gonna get it on now" vibe. But it's a very juvenile approach. It also became a weird signal for comedy, in the sense that when you heard the song, it meant comedy was happening on screen. I feel…” quote by Margaret Cho](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/e1d/margaret-cho-1136_80s_it-s-completely-unsexy-yello-oh-yeah-198_2160792.png)
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