“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
To believe that mind is all, that thought is all is only a higher materialism. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Contrary to what they tell you... You are not a limited material being. — Amit Goswami Copy Share Image
But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money. — Little Richard 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
“They might have you, and they pay badly enough to guarantee you decent company.” — John le Carré Copy Share Image
“To really change the world, we have to help people change the way they see things.” — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“We do not teach history; we recreate the experience. We follow the chain of consequences - the tracks of the beast in… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
As an explanation of the world materialism has a sort of insane simplicity. It has the quality of a madman's arguments; we… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
American life, in large cities, is a perpetual assault on the senses and the nerves; it is out of asceticism, out of… — Joseph McCarthy Copy Share Image
After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
Yes, of course [this age] is materialistic, but the only way to counteract it is to create spiritual things. Don't worry yourself… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“It's all right. I'm not upset. After all, they were just things . When you've lost your mother and your father, you… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“God has not yet revealed himself to no one in no unclear terms. Religions are attempts to find him; on that level… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
Science has, after all, made some colossal blunders in the past... Our current materialism and its rejection of the idea of a… — Susan Blackmore Copy Share Image
Whether on the ground of materialism, or of intellect, or of spirituality, the compensation that is given by the Lord to every… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Democracy encourages a taste for physical gratification; this taste, if it becomes excessive, soon disposes men to believe that all is matter… — Alexis de Tocqueville 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
The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex alcohol, drugs,… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Striving for longevity through versatility facilitates what we might call an ecological or true materialism. ... we are not truly materialist because… — Juliet B. Schor Copy Share Image
“The author points to the impact of what he called Dutch disease, where the discovery of found wealth from a particular commodity… — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
“Japan likewise put her hopes of victory on a different basis from that prevalent in the United States. (...) Even when she… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
The Rulers of Russia, then, are Jewish Politicians, and they are applying to the world the doctrine of Karl Marx (Mordecai). Marx,… — Bernard Lazare Copy Share Image
“Some take pains to be biblical, but many [Christian financial teachers, writers, investment counselors, and seminar leaders] simply parrot their secular colleagues.… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
“Logically, this kind of atheism did not prove that there was no God… On the contrary, Southwell was typical in placing the… — Edward Royle Copy Share Image
“Have you ever considered what Adam and Eve were doing when they got into so much trouble? As I read the story,… — David W. Jones Copy Share Image
“Our life consists not in the pursuit of material success but in the quest for worthy spiritual growth. Our entire earthly existence… — Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“He looked at them and saw their faces did not fit. The skin on the skulls crawled and twitched like half-solid paste.… — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
“The great point in Christianity is the search for an independent content for spiritual life which, according to the insights of its… — Allama Iqbal 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
“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