Material world Quotes

Well, we're living in a material world, and I'm a material girl... or boy.

— Adam Sandler

Photography is a kind of overstatement, a heroic copulation with the material world.

— Susan Sontag

“Lily's spirit neediness expressed itself raw as a kerosene blaze in the material world.”

— Charles Frazier

I know fashion is a material thing, but we live in a material world and I love clothes.

— Patti Smith

Lords of immortality will always fail in the material world.

— Deepak Chopra

The material world may be nothing but illusion...

— Anodea Judith

“I'd much rather buy an experience than something I can possess in the material world”

— Ashly Lorenzana

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

— Joseph Joubert

Everyone in advanced meditation practice should be involved with the economic support of the spread of the dharma. We live in a…

— Frederick Lenz

The core practice of magic is: The execution of a willed intent to create change in the material world, which either defies,…

— Zeena Schreck

I'm more convinced each day of the complete unreality of the material world and the supreme vitality of the invisible world of…

— Paul Russo

“The great potential of Christian literature [is] to depict the material world, the physical world of the senses, while also revealing behind…

— Dana Gioia

Invention is the most important product of man's creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material…

— Nikola Tesla

the material world and the flesh are only temporary - there are no sins of the flesh, spirit is everything!

— Leslie Marmon Silko

Material things are not to be despised-without them there can be no manifestation in the material world.

— Sri Aurobindo

Without question, the material world and your everyday needs distract you from living meaningfully.

— Menachem Mendel Schneerson

“The conditioned souls who have come to the material world to fulfill their desires to lord it over material nature are bound…

— Anonymous

Obviously invidious and prejudicial stereotypes need to be deconstructed and overcome, but it's not that they can be destroyed. I think that…

— W. J. T. Mitchell

“The mystery of the world is revealed only to the person who can look upon the material world with his physical eyes…

— Awdhesh Singh

The whole material world. It doesn't actually exist. Matter is not material. It's made up of atoms that are moving at lightning…

— Deepak Chopra

That subject matter has never left me...The more you're in the material world, the more there is a tendency for a search…

— Martin Scorsese

The fact that psychology postulates an external material world and studies it in so far as it comes to be reflected in…

— Boris Sidis

“Can you hold happiness? Can you drink it? Can you taste it? Can you touch it? Of course not, it is immaterial.…

— Steve Maraboli

To know God and to find one's full satisfaction in that knowledge is the ultimate goal of Christian experience. The Lord's greatest…

— Max Anders

The coexistence of opposites - stillness and dynamism - makes you independent... When you quietly acknowledge this exquisite coexistence of opposites, you…

— Deepak Chopra

I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of…

— Christopher Hitchens

My short stories are so character-based and they're also so private. They're like a private world in each story and I'm getting…

— Ottessa Moshfegh

We do not belong to this material world that science constructs for us. We are not in it; we are outside. We…

— Erwin Schrodinger

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain. Its ultimate…

— Nikola Tesla

“To speak in a spiritual sense is to create but to write is to fix an ephemeral aspect of reality such as…

— Robin Sacredfire

“When you look at what C.S. Lewis is saying, his message is so anti-life, so cruel, so unjust. The view that the…

— Philip Pullman

Every one knows that the heavenly bodies move in certain paths in relation to each other with seeming consistency and regularity which…

— Clarence Darrow

“The most unfortunate persons are the impersonalists, who cannot understand the transcendental variegatedness of the spiritual world. They are afraid to talk…

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

“With a digital display having few pixels, symmetries are common but there is very little meaning because the image is very course…

— Rick Delmonico

“Dream Meditation Practices are best performed in an isolated (close to nature) chamber that is clean and dry. Diet should be modified…

— Mantak Chia

“The men who had inhabited prehistoric Egypt, who had carved the Sphinx and founded the world‘s oldest civilization, were men who had…

— Paul Brunton

“Understanding the physiological and neurological features of spiritual experiences should not be interpreted as an attempt to discredit their reality or explain…

— Sabina Magliocco

“The Lord, as the Supersoul within Brahmā, gave him the intelligence to create. Therefore the creative power of every living entity is…

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

“I have maintained that precisely because Christian faith regards the nothing from which the world came forth as absolute ‘non-being, creatureliness implies…

— John D. Zizioulas

“On this material plane, each living being is like a street lantern lamp with a dirty lampshade. The inside flame burns evenly…

— Vera Nazarian