Causation Quote by Anonymous

“The Christian admits that the universe is manifold and even miscellaneous, just as a sane man knows that he is complex. The sane man…

— G.K. Chesterton

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

— Christopher Hitchens

“According to the materialist conception of history, the ultimately determining element in history is the production and reproduction of real life.”

— Friedrich Engels

“As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to talk of…

— John Piper

“In the grip of madness, materialism begins to look like an admirable belief system.”

— Emma Forrest

“In the end, the final justification of the materialist is not reason, as he so fondly thinks, but mere belief. For it is only…

— Anonymous

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

“For the materialist historian, every epoch with which he occupies himself is only a fore-history of that which really concerns him. And that is…

— Walter Benjamin

“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 the philosophy of the subject who forgets to take account of himself.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The materialist theory of history, that all politics and ethics are the expression of economics, is a very simple fallacy indeed. It consists simply…

— Anonymous

The modern materialists are not permitted to doubt; they are forbidden to believe.

— Anonymous