“Melancholy in a capitalist, like the appearance of a comet, presages some misfortune to the world.” — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“Adversity hath slain her thousand, but prosperity her ten thousand.” — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
“One day incentives may catch up with inflation, but it will never catch up with our aspirations.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“Your shyness alone will bring you more emotional and material losses than all of your other negative attributes.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Materialism and all its miseries can never be conquered by materialism. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“I'd much rather buy an experience than something I can possess in the material world” — Ashly Lorenzana Copy Share Image
If we do want to do that [ colonise space to survive, ], then vacuous materialism is not going to be enough for us. — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
“You [demagogues] are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thoroughly stir up the slime,… — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
If materialism is true, it seems to me that we cannot know that it is true. If my opinions are the result… — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
My fundamental axiom of speculative philosophy is that materialism and spiritualism are opposite poles of the same absurdity-the absurdity of imagining that… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
If you can't afford to give something away, you don't own it, it owns you. If you can't afford to sell it,… — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
“Many a woman would not be in a relationship with or married to her man, if he earned half of what he… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“You have to treat your car with love. And I don’t mean love of an object. You see, that’s just wrong. That’s… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
The natural scientist must be a modern materialist, a conscious adherent of the materialism represented by Marx, i.e., he must be a… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
The cure for materialism is to have enough for everybody and to share. When people are sure of having what they need… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
“The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual life is. All these people thinking… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The danger, then, is that materialism is not only shaping how we live but the way we think as well. It influences… — Robert Wuthnow Copy Share Image
In comparison with capitalism, which reconstituted man as an economic animal; in comparison with Marxism, which found man an object made up… — Ali Shariati Copy Share Image
“Our culture has bred consumers and addicts. We eat too much, buy too much, and want too much. We set ourselves on… — Vironika Tugaleva Copy Share Image
Even if matter could do every outward thing that God does, the idea of it would not work as satisfactorily, because the… — William James Copy Share Image
As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any… — Diane Frolov Copy Share Image
If we understand the dangers of materialism, it will help liberate us to experience the joys of Christ-centered stewardship. Jesus speaks of… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
“Rich people don’t have to have a life-and-death relationship with the truth and its questions; they can ignore the truth and still… — Sergio Troncoso Copy Share Image
“Miller believes, like many theists, that religion brings us beyond the bounds of materialism. (Ironically he insists on a material explanation [evolution]… — G.M. Jackson Copy Share Image
“[Letter to his wife, Natalia Sedova] In addition to the happiness of being a fighter for the cause of socialism, fate gave… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
“We live among ruins in a World in which ‘god is dead’ as Nietzsche stated. The ideals of today are comfort, expediency,… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“They were a remarkable company, each one of them a unique person, yet characterized to some extent by his particular national type.… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
“Late modern society is principally concerned with purchasing things, in ever greater abundance and variety, and so has to strive to fabricate… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
“I never said it was easy to find your place in this world, but I’m coming to the conclusion that if you… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“Two ideas are opposed — not concepts or abstractions, but Ideas which were in the blood of men before they were formulated… — Francis Parker Yockey Copy Share Image
Evolutionists ... have a prior commitment, a commitment to naturalism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
“A civilized woman's demands: A man who will (1) make her come … sometimes; but (2) pay the bills … at all times.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over. — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
To what faults do you feel most indulgent? To the ones that arise from urgent material needs. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Who lives as a citizen, may write as a philosopher - but write as a philosopher, it is to teach materialism! — Julien Offray de La Mettrie Copy Share Image
Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society. — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
“I am obsessed with not being obsessed with acquiring material things.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“A wedding is a ceremony men fund with money they know they don’t have … to prove the love they think they… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Generally, people need less than a quarter of what they want.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
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