Materialism has cast man into such depths that a mighty concentration of forces is necessary to raise him again. He is subject… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
It really is a very radical call ... to reject materialism as our central value and to think about the sanctity of… — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
Mark, therefore, the ordinary theory of practical religion, what it leads to. Charity is great, but the moment you say it is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It's no secret that in New York during the last 30 years there has been a tragic exodus from the churches into… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
I certainly understand that we're all trying to make a living, but I'm not thinking about that when I'm making it. And… — Aimee Mann Copy Share Image
We need leadership that can elevate religion and morality to their position of paramount importance and thus eliminate growing selfishness, immorality and… — George W. Romney Copy Share Image
Look, Salvador Dali did not paint because he needed the money. No conversation about materialism and music makes sense. You make music… — Robert Plant Copy Share Image
An idol is not necessarily something concrete, like a golden calf. It can also be something abstract, like matter. Is matter part… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
“This was a time to prepare for the cold weather, to store up fire and wood. But in those days of the… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone ... Mind cannot arise alone without body, or apart from sinews and blood… — Titus Lucretius Carus Copy Share Image
“America is a young country, young and brash and prone to errors. Like teenagers. For all our inherent goodness, we’ve been cursed… — Heather Choate Davis Copy Share Image
The abstractionist and the materialist thus mutually exasperating each other, and the scoffer expressing the worst of materialism, there arises a third… — Marsilio Ficino Copy Share Image
“There is yet another class that, having found that their own religion not only prevents free thinking but that some of its… — Mohammed Ali Muhiyaddin Copy Share Image
Life is called Samsara - it is the result of the conflicting forces acting upon us. Materialism says, "The voice of freedom… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“The real distinction between a material and spiritual worldview, [William] James wrote does not rest in "hair splitting abstraction about matter's inner… — Barbara Bradley Hagerty Copy Share Image
“This trespass had not come without a price. Living un-lives, material comforts and luxuries became superfluous, connection to the outside world undesirable,… — J. Valor Copy Share Image
“Although we may suffer from idolatry, we do not, I think, suffer from materialism - from the overvaluing of material objects for… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
The Marxist combination of materialism and determinism is fatally anti-humanistic. It denies a consciousness, a mind, that is independent of material conditions… — Gertrude Himmelfarb Copy Share Image
We are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Pay no attention to pop culture, for it is what poisons our minds and divides our children. Materialism promotes negative values and… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Cry down materialism all you will, surely one of the thoroughly satisfactory sensations of this world is to feel financially independent. — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
“Earthly goods deceive the human heart into believing that they give it security and freedom from worry. But in truth, they are… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Evolve your understanding of success from the outer realm of control, materialism, and ego, to the inner realm of surrender, spirituality, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Like many another materialist, that is, he lied cleverly on the basis of insufficient knowledge, because the knowledge supplied seemed to his… — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share Image
“The only cost to happiness is, choice. Remember, happiness is exclusive of materialism and/or the external worldly influences” — Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA Copy Share Image
“When selecting a one-night stand, a heterosexual woman who is materialistic is a trillion times more likely to choose a sexually unattractive… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Marxism is not only the theory of socialism, it is an integral world outlook, a philosophical system, from which Marx’s proletarian socialism… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
“Remember, philosophically speaking, Americans are mongrels —practical materialists but with a dreamy streak of divine approval.” — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
The 'Gossip Girl' idea and ideologies, like, they sort of encourage this certain kind of, like, materialism and superficiality that isn't, I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are in the grip of a scientific materialism, caught in a vicious cycle where our security today seems to depend on… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“Letting go of "stuff" allowed the world to collapse behind me as I moved, so I became nothing more or less than… — Dee Williams Copy Share Image
How right the working classes are in their "materialism." How right they are to realize that the belly comes before the soul,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
democracy always makes for materialism, because the only kind of equality that you can guarantee to a whole people is, broadly speaking,… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
There is a thin line between Spirituality and Materialism. It's necessary to avoid obsession with either of the sides to maintain Perfection… — Sandeep Shergill Copy Share Image
The truth of faith about creation is radically opposed to the theories of materialistic philosophy. These view the cosmos as the result… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
“...in principle, one can predict everything in the universe solely from physical laws. Thus, the long-standing 'first cause' problem intrinsic in cosmology… — L.-Z. Fang Copy Share Image
Success with a small s is based on accumulation and materialism. Success with a large S is based on the unfoldment of… — Michael Beckwith Copy Share Image
More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the… — Jack Schwartz Copy Share Image
“Q: What is wrong with the world? A: Everybody pays attention to pictures of things. Nobody pays attention to things themselves.” — Kurt Vonnegut 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