Material Quotes

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And what is life? God manifested in the material plane. For it is in Him that we live and move and have our being. — Edgar Cayce
The material and the spiritual are but two parts of one universe and one truth. By overstressing one part or the other, man fails to… — Paramahansa Yogananda
[The canonization of the Koran involved the] attribution of several, partially overlapping, collections of logia [sayings] (exhibiting a distinctly Mosaic imprint) to the image of… — John Wansbrough
Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary… — W H Murray
Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material. — George Bernard Shaw
Buddhism teaches us that happiness does not come from any kind of acquisitiveness, be it material or psychological. Happiness comes from letting go. In Buddhism,… — Mark Epstein
When we seek happiness through accumulation, either outside of ourselves-from other people, relationships, or material goods-or from our own self-development, we are missing the essential… — Mark Epstein
If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement… — Mark Twain
Style is something that's extremely important, but it must grow naturally out of who and what you are and what the material calls for. It… — William Friedkin
The business of the artist is not to escape from his material medium or bully it, but to serve it; but to serve it, he… — Dorothy L. Sayers
I certainly don't object to [writers] trying to imagine the lives of other societies, but you have to do it with a certain amount of… — Michael Dorris
From the aspect of energy, renewed by radio-active phenomena, material corpuscles may now be treated as transient reservoirs of concentrated power. Though never found in… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Thought isn't a form of energy. So how on Earth can it change material processes? That question has still not been answered. — Vladimir Vernadsky
Even though the body appears to be material, it is not. In the deeper reality, your body is a field of energy, transformation and intelligence. — Deepak Chopra
Piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose. — Ronald Reagan
A diet of violence or pornography dulls the senses, and future exposures need to be rougher and more extreme. Soon the person is desensitized and… — Marvin J. Ashton
In relation to the political decontamination of our public life, the government will embark upon a systematic campaign to restore the nation's moral and material… — Adolf Hitler
Writing a first draft is like groping one's way into a dark room, or overhearing a faint conversation, or telling a joke whose punchline you've… — Ted Solotaroff
Of course Nebraska is a storehouse of literary material. Everywhere is a storehouse of literary material. If a true artist were born in a pigpen… — Willa Cather
Attractive Etonians who go straight onto the Stock Exchange missing University on their fathers advice: the raw material of the great bores. — Geoffrey Madan

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