“A strange species we are, we can stand anything God and nature can throw at us save only plenty. If I wanted… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A person creating a space in his life for something that he doesnt deserve at all gets readily someone whom he doesnt… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
Only just now awakening after years of materialism, our soul is still infected with the despair born of unbelief, of lack of… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
Do not think me mad. It is not to make money that I believe a Christian should live. The noblest thing a… — David Livingstone Copy Share Image
“We have too quickly bought into the lie that we’ll be happier with more—and as a result, too often miss the joy… — Joshua Becker Copy Share Image
Materialism is decadent and degenerate only if the spirit of the nation has withered and if individual people are so unimaginative that… — Brooks Atkinson 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
This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
“Someday you will die. Because you are embodied through and through, at that point you will cease to exist. You will not… — Owen J. Flanagan Copy Share Image
Contrary to the vulgar belief that men are motivated primarily by materialistic considerations, we now see the capitalist system being discredited and… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
These days, in our materialistic culture, many people are led to believe that money is the ultimate source of happiness. Consequently, when… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Quite a different thing is, if a seeker, dissatisfied by materialism and doctrines, and longing for spiritual support, will ask advice and… — Franz Bardon Copy Share Image
The world says: "You have needs -- satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. Don't hesitate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Successful socialism depends on the perfectibility of man. Unless all, or nearly all, men are high-minded and clear-sighted, it isbound to be… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
On the other side, is a substantial, more materialism, everything is real long to the extent we can see or measure it,… — Surya Das Copy Share Image
There are unprecedented numbers of movements for human rights and freedoms. But the dominant worldviews in academia, like materialism and naturalism, deny… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
“It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking all their… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“reduce the depressive, isolating effects of a materialist mindset by avoiding its stimulants -- most obviously, advertising. One method: "Watch less TV.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“For the genuine materialist there is no fundamental, but only a gradual, an “evolutionary” difference, between man and a pest, a noxious… — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Copy Share Image
I'm less influenced by any of [Karl] Marx's ideas today than I've ever been in my life, and most significantly Marx's theory… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
“Capitalism has turned human beings into commodities. To the owner of a restaurant: the cook and a bag of potatoes are equally… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“The highest point reached by contemplative [anschauende] materialism, that is, materialism which does not comprehend sensuousness as practical activity, is the contemplation… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Historical materialism has every reason to distinguish itself sharply from bourgeois habits of thought. Its founding concept is not progress but actualization.” — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
What are the characteristics of today's world so that one may recognize it by them?" It pays pensions and borrows money: credit… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Let us not forget that revolutions are accomplished through people, although they be nameless. Materialism does not ignore the feeling, thinking, and… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
“Methodological naturalism is a “ground rule” of science today which requires scientists to seek explanations in the world around us based upon… — Robert T. Pennock Copy Share Image
I hear an almost inaudible but pervasive discontent with the price we pay for our current materialism. And I hear a fluttering… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
What need had the businessman to scribble or philosophize when he dominated the imagination of his time and the frantic materialism that… — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
“Life punishes those who have things in abundance by making them worry about petty things like: what to wear, or, which car… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Mitchell claimed that her materialist view leads to “humbleness.” But it is not humbling; it is dehumanizing. It essentially reduces humans to… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the… — Ben Nicholson Copy Share Image
Superstitions are all materialism, because they are all based on the consciousness of body, body, body. No spirit there. Spirit has no… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“On the whole I consider the constant need for delight and diversion in completely new things to be a sign of pettiness,… — Robert Walser Copy Share Image
The ontology of materialism rested upon the illusion that the kind of existence, the direct "actuality" of the world around us, can… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
When I think of some of the great renewals in the church I think of folks like St. Francis and Clare of… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“But I do know we’re deficient in some way. We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don’t satisfy us. The… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“Materialism normalized as abundance chains freedom, and renders life a cripple. True abundance instills content not clutter, Actual needs of life are… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
It's also important, particularly for privileged kids, to involve them in charitable activities. It's a way of raising consciousness for your kids… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“A lot of people with a lot of ill gotten wealth may think that they have high net worth, but will simply… — Jeroninio Almeida Copy Share Image
Evolve your understanding of success from the outer realm of control, materialism, and ego, to the inner realm of surrender, spirituality, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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