“Materialism, it must be understood, is a premise of science, not a finding.” — Gordon White Copy Share Image
“Let temporal things be in the use, eternal things in the desire.” — Thomas à Kempis Copy Share Image
What is necessary to keep providing good care to nature has completely fallen into ignorance during the materialism era. — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
“The problems afflicting a nation are always in equal measure spiritual crises.” — Ron Suskind Copy Share Image
“Employers pay with their money for what employees have paid for with portions of their lives.” — @Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Our God is a consuming fire. He consumes pride, lust, materialism, and other sin. — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
“This may be old hat to some, but in the quantum realm, the things we take for granted aren’t really things at… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
You can be an extreme materialist, thinking that economic development ultimately determines everything; then you are truly ideological. — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“More clothes, more cars, more cash, Just how much will you consider enough! Till you put a cork on cocky abundance, Not… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Don't create unbelief or doubt in people's minds. When you do so you ruin their lives and you have nothing to give… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
While all too many people live in dire poverty, others are caught up in materialism and lifestyles which are destructive of family… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“The truth is that the material world is too poor to satisfy our yearnings. This is how we end up with so… — Yanko Tsvetkov Copy Share Image
“Because materialists cannot understand Krsna spiritually, they are advised to concentrate the mind on physical things and try to see how Krsna… — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda Copy Share Image
“Society might favour able-bodied babies, but it is massively guilty of disabling those healthy babies once they are old enough to imbibe… — Francesca Martínez Copy Share Image
“Fidelity surveyed a group with at least $1 million investment assets excluding real estate and retirement. 42% of them did not FEEL wealthy.” — Christopher Hayes Copy Share Image
“Our culture has bred consumers and addicts. We eat too much, buy too much, and want too much. We set ourselves on… — Vironika Tugaleva Copy Share Image
“I think at the heart of so much restlessness of the day is a spiritual vacuum. There is a yearning for meaningful… — Bill Moyes Copy Share Image
“We believed in another world, but we admitted the feebleness of our senses. Then came 'enlightenment,' and made everything so very clear… — E.T.A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
“As persons, so Mournier maintained, we possess both a spiritual and temporal dimension; we exist in history, in relationship with others, but… — Robert Ellsberg Copy Share Image
This hour in history needs a dedicated circle of transformed nonconformists. Our planet teeters on the brink of annihilation; dangerous passions of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We know that material things don't offer contentment, but we still buy more-more of the props and gadgets our culture tells us… — Susan L. Taylor Copy Share Image
There must be a connection between the lust for power and impotentia coeundi. I liked Marx, I was sure that he and… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Criticism is infested with the cant of materialism, which assumes that manual skill and activity is the first merit of all men,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The shame and the downfall of a modern materialistic society is her inability to treasure, care for, admire, adore, cherish, value, revere,… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“In thinking about these questions I have been stimulated by criticisms of the prevailing scientific world picture... by the defenders of intelligent… — Thomas Nagel 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
“Those who have been forced to study 'dialectical materialism', the strange concoction that was supposed to form the philosophical foundation of Marxism… — Eugene V. Koonin 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
“Science,’ he informed me, ‘might not yet have all the answers, but it is the only verifiable—and hence meaningful—way of asking the… — David Zindell Copy Share Image
[M]an has been accustomed, ever since he was a boy, to having a dozen incompatible philosophies dancing about together inside his head.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Contrary to what the bourgeois and liberal polemics claim, the warrior idea may not be reduced to materialism, nor is it synonymous… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
“Money cannot buy you love. But it sure can buy you things that some people will love you for having.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“We may see the small Value God has for Riches, by the People he gives them to." [ Thoughts on Various Subjects , 1727]” — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The sense that materialism has gotten out of hand is magnified by the pressures facing middle-class American families. — Robert Wuthnow Copy Share Image
“By banishing metaphysics, materialism has no longer an ethical system, knows no longer the distinction between good and evil, possesses no moral… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“Worst of all carnivores are the humans, There is no end to their appetite. Animals no longer partake once they are full,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“You have to pay for this view (onto which he looks while writing), so our expenses keep us pretty motivated to write.… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
With cheese being the only piece to look for our mind's peace, how can the lease of our homemade,self-created problems' cease?~Anuj Somany — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
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