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
A materialist age makes neurotics of those who measure their life in minutes. Teetotalling totalitarians know the cost of life, but not… — Michael J. Knowles Copy Share Image
“The modern materialist often makes it simply: "Do what you like," and then rushes off to ask his psychoanalyst when he no… — Joy Davidman Copy Share Image
Any materialist philosophy must take as its point of departure the existence of a material world that is independent of our minds. — Manuel De Landa Copy Share Image
It's no fun to appreciate to the full the truth of the materialist proposition that I don't have a body, I am… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I'm a big believer in minimalism. Not materialist minimalism, although that's part of it, but time and energy minimalism. The body is… — James Altucher Copy Share Image
“Mazarin, in his character of cardinal and prime minister, was almost an atheist, and quite a materialist.” — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
By nature, I am a materialist... It is exactly these impingements upon our sense of touch and so forth that I'm interested… — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
You're a materialist, like all ignorant people. But your materialism doesn't make materialism true. Don't you know that? In the final summing… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
“Thus, as far as he is a scientific man, as far as he knows anything, he is a materialist; outside his science,… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
“Philosophically, I am a logical empiricist and materialist, and I am a veteran of over 400 radio and TV interviews and debates.… — Frank R. Zindler Copy Share Image
To a materialist, matter is essential: a stone is a stone, a mountain is a mountain, water is water and earth is… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
“The materialist thinks me a slave because I am not allowed to believe in determinism. I think [the materialist] a slave because… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The classics of Marxism, while fully appreciating the significance of the Darwinian theory, pointed out the errors of which Darwin was guilty.… — Trofim Lysenko 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
The materialist doctrine that men are products of circumstances and upbringing, and that, therefore, changed men are products of other circumstances and… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“For the materialist historian, every epoch with which he occupies himself is only a fore-history of that which really concerns him. And… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“Yes, I'm a materialist. I'm willing to be shown wrong, but that has not happened — yet. And I admit that the… — James Randi Copy Share Image
“Everything is emotional because hope is… When I talk to people I no longer see rational beings engaged in rational discourse, I… — Paul Shepheard Copy Share Image
“may occasionally pay lip-service to their value, but it ultimately has no real use for artists, dancers, poets, self-sufficient farmers, tree lovers,… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
The materialist theory of history, that all politics and ethics are the expression of economics, is a very simple fallacy indeed. It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Those who suppose they are producing a materialist theory of knowledge when they make knowledge a passive recording and abandon the “active… — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
I'm very odd 'cause I think there's more than just a materialist planet, a materialist, reductionist planet. — John Cleese Copy Share Image
“According to the materialist conception of history, the ultimately determining element in history is the production and reproduction of real life.” — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
A change in external circumstances without inner renewal is a materialist's illusion, as though man were only a product of his social… — Jurgen Moltmann 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
“When going out of your material body, after the return, the courage becomes so great that you can tread on things that… — Michael Bassey Johnson 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
And perhaps, exhibiting the fruit of the Spirit may be our very best defense against a materialist view of mankind here on… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Socialism and capitalism are both essentially materialist, just different ways of approaching the lifeless world of matter and deciding how to share… — Iain McGilchrist Copy Share Image
I'm not a materialist, I don't care for things. I don't like cars, I hate things that can be exploited. I live… — Ferran Adria Copy Share Image
There was a time when 'science' meant the systematic pursuit of knowledge through experimentation and observation. But it's rapidly becoming a synonym… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
I wasn't born into a religious home, but I was just not a materialist. I didn't believe the material world was all… — Scott Derrickson Copy Share Image
Materialist philosophies that treat human beings as machines or animals possess the high ground in our culture - academia, the most powerful… — Marvin Olasky Copy Share Image
The Christian and the Materialist hold different beliefs about the universe. They can't both be right. The one who is wrong will… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It is not to be understood that I am with him (Jesus Christ) in all his doctrines. I am a Materialist; he… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am, indeed, an absolute materialist so far as actual belief goes; with not a shred of credence in any form of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The materialist theory of history, that all politics and ethics are the expression of economics, is a very simple fallacy indeed. It… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The abstractionist and the materialist thus mutually exasperating each other, and the scoffer expressing the worst of materialism, there arises a third… — Marsilio Ficino Copy Share Image
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