Distinguished Quote by Ambrose Bierce

I do not deny the existence of material substance merely because I have no notion of it, but because the notion of it is…

— George Berkeley

I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material but I know it when I see it.

— Potter Stewart

The trouble is that the expression 'material thing' is functioning already, from the very beginning, simply as a foil for 'sense-datum'; it is not…

— J. L. Austin

Materials are very important to me, and always have been.

— Patricia Piccinini

The sole "property" of matter with whose recognition philosophical materialism is bound up is the property of being an objective reality, of existing outside…

— Vladimir Lenin

'Material' is meant to be a fun, lighthearted song about the tiny bit of materialism that's in all of us. The message is meant…

— Yuna

The distinction between what is real and what is imaginary is not one that can be finely maintained ... all existing thing are ... imaginary.

— Gregg Braden

Materialism lives outside the lines of my reality

— The Game

“The distinction between what is real and what is imaginary is not one that can be finally maintained...all existing things are, in an intelligible…

— Anonymous

“There is an implicit recognition here that important things in life are not always immediately visible, and can't always be named, or even fully…

— Shaun Tan

Materialism is the recognition of "objects in themselves", or outside the mind; ideas and sensations are copies of images of those objects.

— Vladimir Lenin

Be conscious first of thyself within, then think and act. All living thought is a world in preparation; all real act is a thought…

— Sri Aurobindo