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
“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
“There are some who complain most energetically and inconsolably of any, because they are, as they say, doing their duty. I also… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Critics are always complaining about the materialism of hip-hop and accusing the artists of living way above their means. But this ostentatious… — Simon de Pury Copy Share Image
“Too many of us die without knowing transcendent joy, in part because we pursue one form or another of materialism. We seek… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The most loathsome materialism is not the kind people usually think of, but the sort that attempts to let dead ideas pass… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
We are so addicted, either to materialism or to transcending material reality, that we don’t see God right in front of us,… — Andrew Harvey Copy Share Image
“Mi fermai, fissando lo schermo incredulo. Un euro valeva più o meno settecento colones. Con i miei “miseri” seimila euro sul conto,… — Gianluca Gotto Copy Share Image
We are shallow because we have become enslaved by gross materialism, the glitter of gold and its equivalents, for which reason we… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
“I know perfectly well that it is impossible, according to arithmetic and scholarly books, to live in a far valley off a… — Halldór Laxness 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
It was only in the late nineteenth century and then the twentieth century, with the maturation of consumer capitalism, that a shift… — Rodney Clapp 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
“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
“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
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
Australia's is a special kind of philistinism, an immovable materialism which puts art and ideas of any kind deliberately and firmly to… — Robin Boyd Copy Share Image
“When a man's bank balance becomes too small, his woman flees. For a man to do the same, his woman's body —… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I never strike out at any life form. The only things I attack are icons of conspicuous consumption. People put objects in… — Wendy O. Williams Copy Share Image
He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first stone upon… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Materialism doesn't matter I love you, let's live for laughter Make a maneuver Avoid being apart of consumerism consuming consumers Just be… — Andrew Edward Lucier Copy Share Image
“Everything that I have becomes invisible in my search for everything that I don’t have. And when that happens, what I don’t… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“When you build a city near no mountains and no ocean, you get materialism and traditional religion. People have too much time… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“You can’t really, truly love a thing. Love is only possible between beings or groups of beings. Love of a thing doesn’t… — Leland Dirks Copy Share Image
“I wish I understood why you buy all this stuff." "For the same reason I married you," she murmured. "To help pass… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
“There Bomar is, wherever he is, spending a fortune every day on liquor and beautiful women and expensive playthings, when he could… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
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