--- title: "5 Materialist Theory Quotes by 5 authors" description: "Browse 5 Materialist Theory quotes by 5 authors. Discover the best Materialist Theory sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2cb/richard-holmes-50818_human-body_the-celebrated-parisian-doctor-professor_291057.jpg" --- > [“The celebrated Parisian doctor Professor Xavier Bichat developed a fully materialist theory of the human body and mind in his lectures Physiological…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-holmes/the-celebrated-parisian-doctor-professor-xavier-bichat-developed-a/) [Richard Holmes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-holmes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2cb/richard-holmes-50818_human-body_the-celebrated-parisian-doctor-professor_291057.jpg) > [“I find that some philosophers think that my whole approach to qualia is not playing fair. I don’t respect the standard rules…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-c-dennett/i-find-that-some-philosophers-think-that-my-whole-approach-to-qualia/) [Daniel C. Dennett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-c-dennett/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/613/daniel-c-dennett-17655_intuition_i-find-that-some-philosophers-think-that_2596681.jpg) > [“Those who suppose they are producing a materialist theory of knowledge when they make knowledge a passive recording and abandon the “active…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pierre-bourdieu/those-who-suppose-they-are-producing-a-materialist-theory-of/) [Pierre Bourdieu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pierre-bourdieu/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2e4/pierre-bourdieu-16809_knowledge_those-who-suppose-they-are-producing-a-m_2875875.jpg) > [The materialist theory of history, that all politics and ethics are the expression of economics, is a very simple fallacy indeed. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/the-materialist-theory-of-history-that-all-politics-and-ethics-are/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/596/anonymous-1_confusing_the-materialist-theory-of-history-that-a_3035515.jpg) > [The materialist theory of history, that all politics and ethics are the expression of economics, is a very simple fallacy indeed. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/the-materialist-theory-of-history-that-all-politics-and-ethics-are-2/) [Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ac/gilbert-k-chesterton-223_conditions_the-materialist-theory-of-history-that-a_3050405.png) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/materialist-theory/#itemlist", "name": "Materialist Theory Quotes", "numberOfItems": 5, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The celebrated Parisian doctor Professor Xavier Bichat developed a fully materialist theory of the human body and mind in his lectures Physiological Researches on Life and Death, translated into English in 1816. Bichat defined life bleakly as ‘the sum of the functions by which death is resisted”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Richard Holmes" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-holmes/the-celebrated-parisian-doctor-professor-xavier-bichat-developed-a/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2cb/richard-holmes-50818_human-body_the-celebrated-parisian-doctor-professor_291057.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2cb/richard-holmes-50818_human-body_the-celebrated-parisian-doctor-professor_291057.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2cb/richard-holmes-50818_human-body_the-celebrated-parisian-doctor-professor_291057.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The celebrated Parisian doctor Professor Xavier Bichat developed a fully materialist theory of the human…” — Richard Holmes", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“I find that some philosophers think that my whole approach to qualia is not playing fair. I don’t respect the standard rules of philosophical thought experiments. “But Dan, your view is so counterintuitive!” No kidding. That’s the whole point. Of course it is counterintuitive. Nowhere is it written that the true materialist theory of consciousness should be blandly intuitive. I have all along insisted that it may be very counterintuitive. That’s the trouble with “pure” philosophical method here. It has no resources for developing, or even taking seriously, counterintuitive theories, but since it is a very good bet that the true materialist theory of consciousness will be highly counterintuitive (like the Copernican theory--at least at first), this means that “pure” philosophy must just concede impotence and retreat into conservative conceptual anthropology until the advance of science puts it out of its misery. 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