It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from life. Our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But in the wake of 'Bullet,' all the guys wanted to know was, 'How's it doing? How's it selling?' How to tell… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The most important thing about the gentleman was that he was an idealist. ... He was bred up to a code of… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
By the same token, frozen dinners, a microwave oven, a dishwasher, and an illegal immigrant hired to clean the house and take… — Robert Wuthnow Copy Share Image
“I talk about love, forgiveness, social justice; I rage against American materialism in the name of alturism, but have I even controlled… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I solemnly declare that this spiritual kingdom of faith will move forward with or without each of us individually. No unhallowed hand… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
“He knew perfectly well (even if he wasn’t inclined to admit it) that the material body had a spiritual aspect. He knew… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
“A greedy insistence that the whole of nature and life must present itself to our voracious demand for instantaneous intelligibility is a… — John F. Haught Copy Share Image
“Atoms, the building blocks of so-called matter, however much they might seem to be physically circumscribed, aren’t actually like tiny billiard balls.… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
In today's materialistic world there is a risk of people becoming slaves to money, as though they were simply cogs in a… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
There's that great Irish joke: a man is lost in the countryside, stops a passer-by: 'how do I get to Dublin?'. The… — Tim Crane Copy Share Image
“American capitalism is derided for its superficial banality, yet it has unleashed profound, convulsive social change. Condemned as mindless materialism, it has… — Brink Lindsey Copy Share Image
An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn't called a decade of greed. — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
“Civilization is in fact the longest story of all. Civilization can persist through a series of economies.” — Fernand Braudel Copy Share Image
“The unity of Nigeria will only come if we overcome and overgrow tribe, materialism and selfish human nature.” — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha Copy Share Image
Tahiti is now completely occupied by materialistic ideas and I think it is wrong. — Sterling Hayden Copy Share Image
“materialism takes root in early childhood, and is driven mainly by low self-esteem.” — Richard Wiseman Copy Share Image
“A civilized woman's demands: A man who will (1) make her come … sometimes; but (2) pay the bills … at all times.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Who lives as a citizen, may write as a philosopher - but write as a philosopher, it is to teach materialism! — Julien Offray de La Mettrie Copy Share Image
All this talk about atheistic materialism and God-fearing American I think is beside the point; it's a rather vapid form of religion. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“Some people will each start investing more of their salary on ‘their’ house and spending less of it on ‘their’ car or… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Whoever that came up with the idea of people having to have 'a dream' sure knew how to keep these creatures called… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“When the marketplace became crowded with scores of similar products that mostly did what they were supposed to do, companies focused less… — Greg Carlson Copy Share Image
You cannot solve the problem by turning to communism, for communism is based on an ethical relativism and a metaphysical materialism that… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There is direct correlation between a society lacking in artistic vision to lack of social conscience, i.e., crime, poverty, and senseless, violent… — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
I think materialism has trumped a lot of stuff, but I don't think it has trumped the heart, especially when it comes… — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
“The 'practical' man, as this word is often used, is one who recognizes only the material needs, who realizes that men must… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Rome is the Great Beast of atheism and materialism, adoring nothing but itself. Israel is the Great Beast of religion. Neither one… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
I was lucky enough to have had great success early on in life; to have had all the things the material world… — Tom Ford Copy Share Image
“In the end, the claim that just social structures would make works of charity superfluous masks a materialist conception of man: the… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“To wait at Monte Cristo for the purpose of watching like a dragon over the almost incalculable richs that had thus fallen… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Criticism alone can sever the root of materialism, fatalism, atheism, free-thinking, fanaticism, and superstition, which can be injurious universally; as well as… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“The unlucky fact that our current mechanistic materialism rests on muddled, outdated notions of matter isn’t often mentioned today. We can’t approach… — Mark Booth Copy Share Image
