Accounts Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

Materialism is the consciousness of wanting to exploit and enjoy.

— Radhanath Swami

Materialism lives outside the lines of my reality

— The Game

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

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

— Vladimir Lenin

When we try in good faith to believe in materialism, in the exclusive reality of the physical, we are asking our selves to step…

— John Updike

The cure for materialism is to have enough for everybody and to share. When people are sure of having what they need they cease…

— Henry Ford

“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

Materialism is a fruitless attempt to find meaning outside of God. When we try to find ultimate fulfillment in a person other than Christ…

— Randy Alcorn

Materialism means simply the denial that the moral order is eternal, and the cutting off of ultimate hopes; spiritualism means theaffirmation of an eternal…

— William James

Materialism is an identity crisis.

— Bryant H. McGill

“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

“Materialism, it must be understood, is a premise of science, not a finding.”

— Gordon White