Materialism means simply the denial that the moral order is eternal, and the cutting off of ultimate hopes; spiritualism means theaffirmation of… — William James Copy Share Image
Buddhism has always been a religion for people who've worked their way through a cycle of materialism and still feel discontented and… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“Our lives are defined by fear from the very time we are born to the time we bid adieu to this material… — Faraaz Kazi 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
“The job wouldn't be just put the summer, but for a long time, as long as she could see ahead. Once they… — Carson McCullers 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
Materialism is not fundamentally an economic problem, but a cultural one... a spiritual issue. It runs to the depths of our souls,… — Robert Wuthnow Copy Share Image
Americans consume three quarters of the world's anti-depressants because materialism will never bring happiness. — Shmuley Boteach Copy Share Image
The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul; but it has to come to heel. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
Religion without science is superstition. Science without religion is materialism. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The modern proletariat was not led by the social-democracy into class struggle. On the contrary, the international social-democratic movement was called into… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
“Joy of Conscience (The Sonnet) Conscience brings joy, Conscience brings relief. It's a different kind of joy, sanctified by bouts of grief.… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I know it sounds old-fashioned to say we're too materialistic in the West, but happiness does not derive exclusively from things, and… — Sarah Chayes Copy Share Image
“Yes, I'm a materialist. I'm willing to be shown wrong, but that has not happened — yet. And I admit that the… — James Randi Copy Share Image
“Needs multiply as they are met. Woe to the man who would live a disentangled life. Be on guard, my soul, of… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
“If there is a void in your life then you will never fill it with cash!” — Stephen Richards Copy Share Image
Once you abstract from this, once you generalize and postulate Universals, you have departed from the creative reality, and entered the realm… — D. H. Lawrence 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
One of the saddest things I've seen in Amazonian cultures is people who were self-sufficient and happy that now think of themselves… — Daniel Everett Copy Share Image
Production and consumption are the nipples of modern society. Thus suckled, humanity grows in strength and beauty; rising standard of living, all… — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
“A broke man’s lover doesn’t feel ‘loved’ on her Birthday, Christmas, and, on Valentine’s Day.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Rather than ennobling the public mind and cementing the social fabric, applied science speedily became the chief weapon of a gross individualism,… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
