Abstract Quote by Alan Watts

Materialism and all its miseries can never be conquered by materialism.

— Swami Vivekananda

The rejection of all abstract formalism. Materialism reminds every science of its real source: the world men transform. No science can, whether in its…

— Louis Althusser

“An attitude to life which seeks fulfilment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world,…

— E. F. Schumacher

Our world, so we see and hear on all sides, is drowning in materialism, commercialism, consumerism. But the problem is not really there. What…

— Jacob Needleman

“Materialism—an attachment to physical goods beyond their practical value—was a trap; a chain to ensnare the foolish with their own greed.”

— Drew Karpyshyn

As an explanation of the world materialism has a sort of insane simplicity. It has the quality of a madman's arguments; we have at…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Materialism is the consciousness of wanting to exploit and enjoy.

— Radhanath Swami

Since science is essentially objective, involving the study of how things actually are, "materialism" would therefore seem to be its antithesis, since its starting…

— Melanie Phillips

We are often told we are materialistic. It seems to me, we are not materialistic enough. We have a disrespect for materials. We use…

— George Monbiot

“Historical materialism has every reason to distinguish itself sharply from bourgeois habits of thought. Its founding concept is not progress but actualization.”

— Walter Benjamin

Materialism is decadent and degenerate only if the spirit of the nation has withered and if individual people are so unimaginative that they wallow…

— Brooks Atkinson

Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.

— Henri Frederic Amiel