Material Quotes

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Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
To know the brain...is equivalent to ascertaining the material course of thought and will, to discovering the intimate history of life in its perpetual duel… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal
In the American Metaphysical, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant. — Lionel Trilling
Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of suggestion,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a wealth of information built into us ... tucked away in the genetic material in every one of our cells ... without some… — Alexander Shulgin
Every epoch has its character determined by the way its population reacts to the material events which they encounter. — Alfred North Whitehead
In this world it is possible to achieve great material wealth, to live an opulent life. But a life built upon those things alone leaves… — Cesar Chavez
PROPERTY, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever gratifies the passion for… — Ambrose Bierce
EXTINCTION, n. The raw material out of which theology created the future state. — Ambrose Bierce
The best material model of a cat is another, or preferably the same, cat. — Norbert Wiener
Wealth is the means, and people are the ends. All our material riches will avail us little if we do not use them to expand… — John F. Kennedy
Catastrophes come when some dominant institution, swollen like a soap-bubble and still standing without foundations, suddenly crumbles at the touch of what may seem a… — George Santayana
Now the images and temples constructed by mechanics are made of inert matter, so that they too are inert, material, and profane. Even if you… — Clement of Alexandria
The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never have otherwise occurred...unforeseen incidents… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Death is but an aspect of life, and the destruction of one material form is but a prelude to building up of another. — Annie Besant
I only travel to good material, a good director and a good company. I won't work in another country for a year any longer, because… — Jim Dale
It is easy to understand why the cat has eclipsed the dog as modern America's favorite pet. People like pets to possess the same qualities… — P.J. O'Rourke
I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological outline which contains… — Shirley Jackson
For the material, at best, is only temporal, or temporary, while that which may be built from spiritual desire, spiritual purposes, is eternal. — Edgar Cayce
There should be a balance between material and spiritual progress, a balance achieved through the principles based on love and compassion. — Dalai Lama

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