I've always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you. — George Eliot 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
“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
When a person's primary objective is to maximize material pleasures while minimizing discomforts, then life becomes a constant process of "pushing" (trying… — Duane Elgin Copy Share Image
“James Bond: a paid assassin of plutocratic cartels, a womanizer, a dipsomaniac, a speed demon, a materialist.” — O Anna Niemus Copy Share Image
“In the West, the great problem that was created for Christianity from the 17th century onward and even earlier during the Renaissance… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
It becomes necessary to learn how to clear the mind of all clouds, to free it of all useless ballast and debris… — Indra Devi 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
“We're all to driven by materialism. Obsessed with success. With money. With trying to impress people who'll never be impressed.” — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
“It is only by being ordinary you get to be extraordinary. Being ordinary does not mean being a robotic slave to the… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Carlyle's genius was many-sided. He touched and ennobled the national life at all points. He lifted a whole generation of young men… — Hector Carsewell Macpherson Copy Share Image
People are realizing that what seemed important to them in their lives-materialism and consumerism-doesn't work at all to make a happy heart.… — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
“Once employed, the employed's friends are reduced to creatures that he only sees when he has a new problem, or, something new… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Science has, after all, made some colossal blunders in the past... Our current materialism and its rejection of the idea of a… — Susan Blackmore Copy Share Image
“Did you find anything special?' Blackie asked. T. nodded. 'Come over here,' he said, 'and look.' Out of both pockets he drew… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Envy never comes to the ball dressed as envy; it comes dressed as high moral standards or distaste for materialism. — Martin Amis 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
Materialism, which gives priority to material needs and objects, is obviously the opposite of spirituality — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
“Intelligent design theorists have learned a few lessons from the failures of their predecessors and have devised a more sophisticated strategy to… — Robert T. Pennock Copy Share Image
It is a law in the universe that a wave of spiritual awakening is always followed by a period of doubting materialism,… — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes. — Oliver Goldsmith 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
Meditation means to be free from all phenomena and calmness means to be internally unperturbed. There will be calmness when one is… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
“We regard promissory materialism as superstition without a rational foundation. The more we discover about the brain, the more clearly do we… — John C. Eccles Copy Share Image
