Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
That feeling of freedom, open highways of possibilities, has kind of been lost to materialism and marketing. — Sheryl Crow Copy Share Image
“Don’t curse the gods; you will feel shame when you have to call on them for help” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“If you make everything solely about money you end up with a very poor society.” — Rasheed Ogunlaru Copy Share Image
“There is nothing behind the curtains of religions, people put there whatever their imaginations can fathom” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“A woman who holds her head up too high, is trying to breathe from her own pollution.” — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“Earn, consume, and enjoy life. Offend no one; don’t get offended. Don’t take sides; don’t take a stand. Don’t interfere; don’t get… — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
“Just imagine if you took all the money you've spent on these things and traveled around the world with it, instead, or… — Eustace Conway Copy Share Image
Modern education is premised strongly on materialistic values. It is vital that when educating our children's brains that we do not neglect… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“The materialist thinks me a slave because I am not allowed to believe in determinism. I think [the materialist] a slave because… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The most consistent versions of materialism deny the reality of anything beyond matter - no soul, no spirit, no will, no mind.… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
Material bullshit comes and will always go, not anything to be taken by, a trick for the eyes that's only for show.… — Tom Sid Copy Share Image
Dialectical materialism works like cocaine, let's say. If you sniff it once or twice, it may not change your life. If you… — Nicolae Ceausescu Copy Share Image
“Once you believe that god is not a private property of anybody, you are on your way to becoming a new messiah.… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
We come from a proud tradition of people who have insisted that none of us can be truly successful until at least… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
For a time it seemed inevitable that the surging tide of agnosticism and materialism would sweep all before it. There were those… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Sometimes, because of its immediacy, television produces a kind of electronic parable. Berlin, for instance, on the day the Wall was opened.… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Since science is essentially objective, involving the study of how things actually are, "materialism" would therefore seem to be its antithesis, since… — Melanie Phillips Copy Share Image
“Philosophically, I am a logical empiricist and materialist, and I am a veteran of over 400 radio and TV interviews and debates.… — Frank R. Zindler Copy Share Image
“I do not think anyone can read the letters which passed between Clarke and [Anthony] Collins without admitting that Collins, who writes… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“That’s what money will buy you, in America,” Brown had said, firmly. “People say Americans are materialistic. But do you know why?”… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“The universe, the whole mass of things that are, is corporeal, that is to say, body, and hath the dimensions of magnitude,… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“The living cell is the most complex system of its size known to mankind. Its host of specialized molecules, many found nowhere… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
The Truth doesn't need your cooperation to exist. All forms of cult, all forms of hype, all forms of delusion do require… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“If you’re an Orthodox believer, then what sustains this framework is the obligation that you follow. But if you live in a… — Kalid Gilad Copy Share Image
“On the second and the third night there was again a ball -- this time in mid-ocean, during a furious storm sweeping… — Ivan Bunin Copy Share Image
“The spiritualist or the idealist believes in a spiritual essence of force; spiritual, that is to say phantomatic, inexplicable. The man of… — Joseph Dietzgen Copy Share Image
Now, my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose. I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Curiously enough, it seems that at times the spiritual side prevails, and then the materialistic side—in wave-like motions following each other. ...At… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“When I reached intellectual maturity, and began to ask myself whether I was an atheist, a theist, or a pantheist; a materialist… — Thomas Henry Huxley 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
Possibly the words materialism and spirituality express two sides of one and the same fact. — Honore de Balzac 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
Materialism is the philosophy of the subject who forgets to take account of himself. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“For the most expensive way to realize an orgasm, men open their wallets. For the cheapest, they close their eyes.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Life is less a burden without an absolute quest for material possessions” — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
“Most women have low standards. All they strive for is a highly paid man.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image