Science keeps religion from sinking into the valley of crippling irrationalism and paralyzing obscurantism. Religion prevents science from falling into the marsh… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Meditation means to be free from all phenomena and calmness means to be internally unperturbed. There will be calmness when one is… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
The sole "property" of matter with whose recognition philosophical materialism is bound up is the property of being an objective reality, of… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
“Because he has finally realized that it is it and not him that is loved by the woman he loves, many a… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“When we see a good-looking woman with a not-so-good-looking man, we assume that the man must have a good bank balance. When… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Let us treasure up in our soul some of those things which are permanent..., not of those which will forsake us and… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
What is assumed to be the materialisation of the inner truth of the self is in fact an idealisation of the material… — Zygmunt Bauman 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
The line that I am urging as today's conventional wisdom is not a denial of consciousness. It is often called, with more… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
The plants that produce visions can function- for those of us who have inherited the New World Order of barren materialism, cut… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
“I believe the defenders of intelligent design deserve our gratitude for challenging a scientific world view that owes some of the passion… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
“The one who lives solely with the many, solely with the best, lives only as briefly as that which he owns, passes… — Fabian Gustafsson 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
Many Christians and Christian leaders have been neutralized by the love of money and materialism. The homage paid to affluence becomes a… — John Wimber Copy Share Image
Well, I would have to say as a Christian that I believe any belief system, any world view, whether its Zen Buddhism… — Albert Mohler Copy Share Image
Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“One late winter afternoon in Oxford Street, amid the noise of vehicles and voices that filled that dusky thoroughfare, as I was… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
“Intelligent design theorists have learned a few lessons from the failures of their predecessors and have devised a more sophisticated strategy to… — Robert T. Pennock Copy Share Image
“We dabble in many things; but the one great real idea of our age, not copied from any other, not pretended, not… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
“Things that look like they were designed, probably were... If intelligence is an operative component of the universe, a science that methodologically… — Donald L. Ewert Copy Share Image
“Something is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For thirty years we have made a virtue out of the pursuit… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
In matter-ism (materialism), there can be nothing wrong with the world since there is no right way for the world to be… — Greg Koukl Copy Share Image
“All the towering materialism which dominates the modern mind rests ultimately upon one assumption; a false assumption. It is supposed that if… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The fundamental absurdity of materialism is that it starts from the objective, and takes as the ultimate ground of explanation something objective,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Materialism—an attachment to physical goods beyond their practical value—was a trap; a chain to ensnare the foolish with their own greed.” — Drew Karpyshyn Copy Share Image
“The gods grant nothing more than life, So let us reject whatever lifts us To unbreathable heights, Eternal but flowerless.” — Pessoa Fernando Copy Share Image
Science has rolled its war wagons over the crushed myths of so many religious beliefs. It has marshaled its mechanics to explain… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
Contemporary movies just drive me crazy. The violence and the sentimentality and the spiritual materialism and Theism and the incredible indulgence in… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
You don't have to be a Christian to recognize that materialism does not match reality. Materialism is not true to universal human… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Bulstrode's naïve way of conciliating piety and worldliness, the nothingness of this life and desirability of cut glass, the consciousness at… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The materialist is sure that history has been simply and solely a chain of causation, just as the [lunatic] is quite sure… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do not think you need necessarily have as fine swords and clothing as your neighbor. As long as they are not disreputable,… — Hojo Soun Copy Share Image
“Most people do not mind having a house that is smaller and/or a car that is cheaper than their neighbours’, as long… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana 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
Art is not some inessential frippery - it is the nation's means of intelligently regarding itself. To cripple or stigmatize the arts… — George Saunders 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
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
“...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
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