American energy. . . is the energy of violence, of free-floating resentment and anxiety unleashed by chronic cultural dislocations which must be,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“You are too timid for me. You care too much about what other people think. But you know what? Because you are… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
“Nothing in the tangible word that isn't living has any value beyond a dollar amount. Considering that dollars can only buy more… — Ashly Lorenzana Copy Share Image
“And I don’t believe in this materialism, in this consumer society, in this capitalism, in this outrageous horror that happens / takes… — Ingeborg Bachmann Copy Share Image
“As students grow more and more accustomed to assuming materialism and naturalism in their academic work, the concept of creation by God… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
I maintain that the human mystery is incredibly demeaned by scientific reductionism, with its claim in promissory materialism to account eventually for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The mechanical brain does not secrete thought "as the liver does bile," as the earlier materialists claimed, nor does it put it… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
It's a cultural disability in America that we worship pleasure, leisure, and affluence. I think the church is doubly damned when they… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
Walking the spiritual path properly is a very subtle process; it is not something to jump into naively. There are numerous sidetracks… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
I believe the root of all happiness on this earth to lie in the realization of a spiritual life with a consciousness… — Hugh Walpole Copy Share Image
So many people are living their lives out in an illusion. The illusion is that everything they know and perceive to be… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
It's a flaw in our argument, for sure. By any reading of evolutionary theory, creationists ought to have died out ages ago.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I'd been a child during the 1960s when women burned their bras and hundreds of thousands gathered in protests against the Vietnam… — Lynn Hill Copy Share Image
“Already, in the last few decades, you have realized the utter futility of of encumbering yourselves with superfluous possessions that have no… — Clare Winger Harris Copy Share Image
“Those who have succeeded in procuring this admirable materialism have the joy of feeling themselves irresponsible, and of thinking that they can… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Capitalism is always in danger of inspiring men to be more concerned about making a living than making a life. We are… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
This - where we are now - is where a culture gets to, when it has chosen, for many years, banality over… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The hymns of David, the plays of Shakespeare, the metaphysics of Descartes, the crimes of Borgia, the virtues of Antonine, the atheism… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“[ When a religious couple wrote to Sagan about fulfilled prophecies, he wrote back in May 1996 :] If ‘fulfilled prophecy’ is… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Let us be bold enough to ask ourselves as Christians whether the Church of the Lord Jesus in the United States has… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Hippies started the ecology movement. They combated racism. They liberated sexual stereotypes, encouraged change, individual pride, and self-confidence. They questioned robot materialism.… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
“The real distinction between a material and spiritual worldview, [William] James wrote does not rest in "hair splitting abstraction about matter's inner… — Barbara Bradley Hagerty Copy Share Image
Life is called Samsara - it is the result of the conflicting forces acting upon us. Materialism says, "The voice of freedom… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“There is yet another class that, having found that their own religion not only prevents free thinking but that some of its… — Mohammed Ali Muhiyaddin Copy Share Image
“America is a young country, young and brash and prone to errors. Like teenagers. For all our inherent goodness, we’ve been cursed… — Heather Choate Davis Copy Share Image
The abstractionist and the materialist thus mutually exasperating each other, and the scoffer expressing the worst of materialism, there arises a third… — Marsilio Ficino Copy Share Image
Thus science strips off, one after the other, the more or less gross materialisations by which we endeavour to form an objective… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
“COMING FORTH INTO THE LIGHT I was born the day I thought: What is? What was? And What if? I was transformed… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“This trespass had not come without a price. Living un-lives, material comforts and luxuries became superfluous, connection to the outside world undesirable,… — J. Valor Copy Share Image
All that young people are promised today are the rewards of a shallow materialism and a degree that is defined primarily as… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“Selfishness provides materialism, wealth, and attachment, but at the cost of happiness. The ignorant and the naïve choose the path of selfishness… — Pratap C. Singhal Copy Share Image
“Oh, to let go of the tangible things and believe in the intangibles like love, joy and faith. It is a hard… — Kate McGahan Copy Share Image
“Listen. Do you see that you can’t hear snowfall? Look. Do you sense that you can’t see love? Touch. Do you grasp… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
I envied women with signature hair-dos, signature perfumes, signature sign-offs. Novelists who tell Vogue Magazine: “I can’t live without my Smythson notebook,… — Emma Forrest Copy Share Image
A painted landscape is always more beautiful than a real one, because there's more there. Everything is more sensual, and one takes… — Fernando Botero Copy Share Image
Africa may yet prove to be the spiritual conservatory of the world ...When the civilised nations in consequence of their wonderful material… — Edward Wilmot Blyden Copy Share Image
“This was a time to prepare for the cold weather, to store up fire and wood. But in those days of the… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
We believe that if the world doesn't go quickly to an end, it will be only because Hitlerism transformed itself into a… — Miguel Serrano Copy Share Image
“There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone ... Mind cannot arise alone without body, or apart from sinews and blood… — Titus Lucretius Carus Copy Share Image
“Certainly, I approve of it. Our culture has sunk into a bog of materialism. Men have lost all spiritual values in their… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
![“[ When a religious couple wrote to Sagan about fulfilled prophecies, he wrote back in May 1996 :] If ‘fulfilled prophecy’ is your criterion, why do you not believe in materialistic science, which has an unparalleled record of fulfilled prophecy? Consider, for example, eclipses.” quote by Carl Sagan](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/875/carl-sagan-160_belief_when-a-religious-couple-wrote-to-sagan-a_25095.jpg)
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