Material Quotes

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Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions. — Ludwig von Mises
Time is the explicable raw material of everything. — Arnold Bennett
For too long the development debate has ignored the fact that poverty tends to be characterized not only by material insufficiency but also by denial… — Kofi Annan
One aim of physical sciences had been to give an exact picture the material world. One achievement of physics in the twentieth century has been… — Jacob Bronowski
I read American sagas (of the west) and I do not see people who went in search of material things. I see people who wrote… — Alan Keyes
I rather wish to rest my case on material considerations, not those of the social future but those of the actual historical period of the… — Immanuel Wallerstein
It is the eternal, inescapable law that growth comes only from work and preparation, whether the growth be material, mental, or spiritual. Work has no… — J. Reuben Clark
Everything that happens in my day is a transaction between the external world and my internal world. Everything is raw material. Everything is relevant. Everything… — Twyla Tharp
Without God the economy is only economy, nature is nothing more than a deposit of material, the family only a contract, life nothing more than… — Giampaolo Crepaldi
This my goodness does to endow the souls of the just more fully with spiritual riches when for my love they are stripped of material… — St. Catherine of Siena
There is no good trying to be more spiritual than God. God never meant man to purely spiritual creature. That is why He uses material… — C.S. Lewis
The societies of consumption and squandering of material resources are incompatible with the idea of economic growth and a clean planet. — Fidel Castro
The dilemma of our age is the combination of unprecedented material progress and systematic spiritual decline. The decline in public and private morality can be… — King Hussein I
I believe that the Hindu faith has developed the spiritual in its devotees at the expense of the material, and I think that in the… — Swami Vivekananda
There is a spiritual side to our connection with the planet. And in this material world, that's anathema. It is somewhat worrying. What I say..… — Bob Brown
The drop in living standards most people would have to accept to reduce climate change significantly would still leave us far better off than previous… — Raimond Gaita
Hinduism has made marvelous discoveries in things of religion, of the spirit, of the soul. We have no eye for these great and fine discoveries.… — Mahatma Gandhi
An adept of Kriya Yoga conquers death by taking the soul beyond identification with the physical body, consciously and at will; and then returning to… — Paramahansa Yogananda
I, sir, have always conceived - I believe those who proposed the constitution conceived,and it is still more fully known, and more material to observe,… — James Madison
The defect of power in the existing confederacy, to regulate the commerce between its several members is in the number of those which have been… — James Madison

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