It seems to me that philosophers should be more relaxed…

“Lenin clearly and unambiguously poses the question of the relationship between the ‘form’ of materialism and its ‘essence’, of the impermissibility of identification of…

— Evald Ilyenkov

“Too many of us die without knowing transcendent joy, in part because we pursue one form or another of materialism. We seek meaning in…

— Dean Koontz

You're a materialist, like all ignorant people. But your materialism doesn't make materialism true. Don't you know that? In the final summing up, it…

— Gene Wolfe

You don't have to be a Christian to recognize that materialism does not match reality. Materialism is not true to universal human experience -…

— Nancy Pearcey

You have to decide to servant the gods of materialism all around us or the true and the living God.

— Billy Graham

If materialism is true, it seems to me that we cannot know that it is true. If my opinions are the result of the…

— John B. S. Haldane

“The sum of productive forces, capital funds and social forms of intercourse, which every individual and generation finds in existence as something given, is…

— Karl Marx

Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Science will always raise philosophical questions like, is any scientific theory or model correct? How do we know? Are unobserved things real? etc. and…

— Tim Crane

“Socrates: Have you noticed on our journey how often the citizens of this new land remind each other it is a free country? Plato:…

— Anonymous

Now that we do not have priests and philosophers any more, artists are the most important people in the world.

— Gerhard Richter

For they, the philosophers, were considered teachers of right living, which is far more excellent, since to speak well belongs only to a few,…

— Lactantius

If experiments are performed thousands of times at all seasons and in every place without once producing the effects mentioned by your philosophers, poets,…

— Galileo Galilei

It will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

“Mr. Pickwick was a philosopher, but philosophers are only men in armour, after all.”

— Charles Dickens