“If money is your only measure of success, do not be surprised when it is all you have.” — Wayne Gerard Trotman Copy Share Image
We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
“You know a man is interesting when you forget to notice how expensive — or cheap — his clothes are.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Neither idealists nor materialists are right; we must take both idea and expression. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“We all need new ideas, images, and experiences far more than we need new stoves or cars or computers.” — Bill Holm Copy Share Image
“Isn’t materialism the cause of much that is evil in the land of mortal souls?” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
To have so little, and it of so little value, was to be quaintly free. — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“Money is a good weapon against the scum and is of no consequence to the noble mind. - On Money.” — Lamine Pearlheart Copy Share Image
Being materialistic will lead you nowhere! There is only one to truly please and in his eyes we are all equal with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You're a materialist, like all ignorant people. But your materialism doesn't make materialism true. Don't you know that? In the final summing… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
Science investigates, religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power, religion gives man wisdom which is control. Science deals mainly with… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I question whether I want to be integrated into America as it stands now, with its complacency and materialism, its soullessness. — Paule Marshall Copy Share Image
“Objectivity is a subjective fantasy implanted in us by an external will seeking to curtail our creativity by limiting our minds to… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
“An idea? An idea won't get you nothing but another idea. You need money, cash, to make anything happen in this doggone… — Nathan McCall 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
“Why does a steward steal? He steals because he's not sure he'll always remain with his master and wants to make his… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
I have all but killed myself for Photography. My passion for it is greater than ever. It's forty years that I have… — Alfred Stieglitz 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 have had to make up for their spiritual impoverishment by accumulating material things. When spiritual blessings come, material blessings seem unimportant.… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
When we try in good faith to believe in materialism, in the exclusive reality of the physical, we are asking our selves… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“We've got so much in this life that all we know how to do is want more. So we concentrate on the… — Joan Bauer Copy Share Image
“We believed in another world, but we admitted the feebleness of our senses. Then came 'enlightenment,' and made everything so very clear… — E.T.A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
This hour in history needs a dedicated circle of transformed nonconformists. Our planet teeters on the brink of annihilation; dangerous passions of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We know that material things don't offer contentment, but we still buy more-more of the props and gadgets our culture tells us… — Susan L. Taylor Copy Share Image
“Renouncing false beliefs will not usher in the millennium. Few things about the strategy of contemporary apologists are more repellent than their… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
“The main defect of all hitherto-existing materialism — that of Feuerbach included — is that the Object [der Gegenstand], actuality, sensuousness, are… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“The problem with people today, is, they have religions but they have no spirituality. They go to church but they cannot even… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
While I've always been critical about this peddling of spiritual materialism, it wasn't until I went to Nepal that I came face-to-face… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
Zionism is only around 100 years old. It is the transformation from religion to nationalism, to materialism created by non-religious Jews who… — Yisroel Dovid Weiss Copy Share Image
Men are tending to materialism. Houses, lands, and worldly goods attract their attention, and as a mirage lure them on to death.… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
“...it is not to be understood that I am with him [Jesus] in all his doctrines. I am a Materialist, he takes… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Lenin clearly and unambiguously poses the question of the relationship between the ‘form’ of materialism and its ‘essence’, of the impermissibility of… — Evald Ilyenkov Copy Share Image
“Dreams shouldn't be about what you can buy--they should be about what mark you leave in the world.” — Claire Cross Copy Share Image
“To really change the world, we have to help people change the way they see things.” — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“I need anything, anything that will stop me from living in the kind of death the bourgeois eat, the death called comfort.” — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
“Life is less a burden without an absolute quest for material possessions” — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
Materialism is the philosophy of the subject who forgets to take account of himself. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
There is only one reason an intelligent person doesn't believe in miracles. He or she believes in materialism. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world. — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
“There is nothing behind the curtains of religions, people put there whatever their imaginations can fathom” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
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