“Methodological naturalism is a “ground rule” of science today which requires scientists to seek explanations in the world around us based upon… — Robert T. Pennock Copy Share Image
Let us not forget that revolutions are accomplished through people, although they be nameless. Materialism does not ignore the feeling, thinking, and… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
“The highest point reached by contemplative [anschauende] materialism, that is, materialism which does not comprehend sensuousness as practical activity, is the contemplation… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Historical materialism has every reason to distinguish itself sharply from bourgeois habits of thought. Its founding concept is not progress but actualization.” — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
What are the characteristics of today's world so that one may recognize it by them?" It pays pensions and borrows money: credit… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
“reduce the depressive, isolating effects of a materialist mindset by avoiding its stimulants -- most obviously, advertising. One method: "Watch less TV.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“For the genuine materialist there is no fundamental, but only a gradual, an “evolutionary” difference, between man and a pest, a noxious… — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Copy Share Image
I'm less influenced by any of [Karl] Marx's ideas today than I've ever been in my life, and most significantly Marx's theory… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Whats the biggest commercial for aggression, sexuality and materialism? What gets pumped into these kids heads? Taking someone elses girl, which is… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
“It had never occurred to him that he should live in any other than what he would have called an ordinary way,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Let our lives be firmly rooted in Truth. Abstain from lies. In this dark age of materialism, adherence to truth is the… — Mata Amritanandamayi 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
“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
“Science must not degenerate into applied materialistic philosophy. But this is exactly what it does at the hands of today's alchemists, namely,… — William A. Dembski 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
“Materialism is a conviction based not upon evidence or logic but upon what Carl Sagan (speaking of another kind of faith) called… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
“If you’re an Orthodox believer, then what sustains this framework is the obligation that you follow. But if you live in a… — Kalid Gilad Copy Share Image
The Truth doesn't need your cooperation to exist. All forms of cult, all forms of hype, all forms of delusion do require… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“the case is even stronger, and the parallel with madness is yet more strange. For it was our case against the exhaustive… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Materialism is also associated with more anti-social and self-centred behaviour. One of the effects of a materialistic disposition is a greater tendency… — Jane Caro Copy Share Image
“My method is atheism. I find the atheistic outlook provides a favourable background for cosmopolitan practices. Acceptance of atheism at once pulls… — Gora Copy Share Image
“Being a fool the right way means not being the kind of fool who uncritically accepts so-called real-world truths that attempt to… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
“It's as if I had been going downhill when I thought I was going uphill. That's how it was. In society's opinion… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
“It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking all their… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Materialism is decadent and degenerate only if the spirit of the nation has withered and if individual people are so unimaginative that… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
Do not think me mad. It is not to make money that I believe a Christian should live. The noblest thing a… — David Livingstone Copy Share Image
“We have too quickly bought into the lie that we’ll be happier with more—and as a result, too often miss the joy… — Joshua Becker Copy Share Image
Only just now awakening after years of materialism, our soul is still infected with the despair born of unbelief, of lack of… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
“A strange species we are, we can stand anything God and nature can throw at us save only plenty. If I wanted… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A person creating a space in his life for something that he doesnt deserve at all gets readily someone whom he doesnt… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
“I knew how one climbing the mountain of worldly success can slip down into the river below without being conscious of the… — Diego Rivera Copy Share Image
In Los Angeles, parenting is a competitive sport. From Beverly Hills baby boutiques to kids' yoga classes, L.A. fuses high style, industrial-strength… — Shawn Amos Copy Share Image
“In a materialistic society, man is likely to value the opinion of a rich man over that of a poor one; even… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Why should the simple fact of your having more money entitle you to a greater share of the Earth's limited natural resources? — Shekhar Kapur Copy Share Image
“Every year I collect a select amount of material possessions (baseball cards, coins, famous paraphernalia) to pass on to my children. In… — Akutra-Ramses Atenosis Cea Copy Share Image
This is our most dangerous addiction - our addiction to things. For it is this addiction that underlies the materialism of our… — Russell Peters Copy Share Image
Individually, people are finding that a simpler lifestyle provides greater satisfaction than relentless pursuit of materialism. — Laurance Rockefeller Copy Share Image
“[A]nd you may know how little God thinks of money by observing on what bad and contemptible characters he often bestows it."… — Thomas Guthrie Copy Share Image
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