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
You can be an extreme materialist, thinking that economic development ultimately determines everything; then you are truly ideological. — Slavoj Žižek 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
“When you become a minimalist, you free yourself from all the materialist messages that surround us.” — Fumio Sasaki Copy Share Image
“Worst of all carnivores are the humans, There is no end to their appetite. Animals no longer partake once they are full,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I don't quite see the 20th century as one of chaos. But I believe in certain inevitable outcomes of a materialist nature. — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
Every materialist will be an idealist; but an idealist can never go backward to be a materialist. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
True realism, materialist realism lies in the search for the expression of forms faithful to their content. But there is no content… — Asger Jorn 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
I once did a radio program with a famous materialist, that is to say a scientist who believed that absolutely everything was… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The Christian is quite free to believe that there is a considerable amount of settled order and inevitable development in the universe.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Like many another materialist, that is, he lied cleverly on the basis of insufficient knowledge, because the knowledge supplied seemed to his… — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share Image
I am a hopeless materialist. I see the soul as nothing else than the sim of activities of the organism plus personal… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely… — A. N. Wilson 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
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
“In a hyper materialist environment where everything is reduced to mere economic considerations, what we deem to be important is often trivial,… — Cory Bernardi 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
“...it is not to be understood that I am with him [Jesus] in all his doctrines. I am a Materialist, he takes… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Man is by nature a pragmatic materialist, a mechanic, a lover of gadgets and gadgetry; and these are the qualities that characterize… — Elizabeth Gould Davis Copy Share Image
“The Christian admits that the universe is manifold and even miscellaneous, just as a sane man knows that he is complex. The… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The problem, however, is that I have yet to meet anyone, materialist or otherwise, who was able to dispense with value judgements.… — Luc Ferry Copy Share Image
“Any half-awake materialist well knows – that which you hold holds you.” — Tom Robbins” — Joshua Becker Copy Share Image
“materialist and a spiritualist accept the same definition of a crystal of sodium chloride.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The man who knows of the universe of spirit walks upright, the materialist hugs the earth.” — F.J. Sheed Copy Share Image
West is too materialist; East is too spiritual; North is too cold; South is too loose! — Mehmet Murat Ildan 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
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
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
“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
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
Even when Darwin's teaching first made its appearance, it became clear at once that its scientific, materialist core, its teaching concerning the… — Trofim Lysenko Copy Share Image
I've never been a materialist; I've never been somebody who believes in only what we can see and measure. I continue to… — Scott Derrickson Copy Share Image
Awe is not a very comfortable standpoint for many people... Hence, all about us today, we see avoidance of awe-by burying ourselves… — Kirk J. Schneider Copy Share Image
And I, a materialist who does not believe in the starry heaven promised to a human being, for this dog and for… — Pablo Neruda 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 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
“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
“We can also take personal initiative to reduce the depressive, isolating effects of a materialist mindset by avoiding its stimulants -- most… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
![“...it is not to be understood that I am with him [Jesus] in all his doctrines. I am a Materialist, he takes the side of spiritualism; he preaches the efficacy of repentance toward forgiveness of sin. I require a counterpoise of good works to redeem it... Among the sayings & discourses imputed to…” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/06a/thomas-jefferson-43_absurdity_it-is-not-to-be-understood-that-i-am-wit_1394038.jpg)
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