Material Quotes

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In our age, when technology is gaining control over life, when material well-being is considered the most important goal, when the influence of religion has… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
As civilization advances, man grows unconscious of the primitive elements of life; he is separated from them by his perfection of material techniques. — Charles Lindbergh
Profit is proof that the capitalist has given something to society that it cherishes more than the material wealth it has given to the businessman. — Johan Norberg
I strive to seek new material that fit into the logic of construction, while performing services appropriate to real needs. — Gaetano Pesce
For years, I've pushed the idea of a column compilation book mainly because it would be easy - I could just staple 'em all together.… — Michael Musto
Our western science is a child of moral virtues; and it must now become the father of further moral virtues if its extraordinary material triumphs… — Arnold J. Toynbee
Having lost religious faith and the humanistic values bound up with it, he [man] concentrated on technical and material values and lost the capacity for… — Erich Fromm
By artist I mean of course everyone who has tried to create something which was not here before him, with no other tools and material… — William Faulkner
All sorts of Heroes are intrinsically of the same material; that given a great soul, open to the Divine Significance of Life, then there is… — Thomas Carlyle
A seed is really something spiritual as much as it is something material. It contains a life spark that allows the regenerative process to happen.… — Gary Paul Nabhan
Unless created as freestanding works, quotations resemble "found" art. They are analogous, say, to a piece of driftwood identified as formally interesting enough to be… — Gary Saul Morson
Work is taking the raw material of creation and developing it for the sake of others. — Timothy Keller
I have heard it said that living out of our vision is more powerful than living out of our circumstance. Holding on to a vision… — Marianne Williamson
It is the artist's function not to copy but to synthesise: to eliminate from that gross confusion of actuality which is his raw material whatever… — William Ernest Henley
Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth… — E F Schumacher
Mankind always sets itself only such tasks as it can solve; since, looking at the matter more closely, we will always find that the task… — Karl Marx
In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the… — Karl Marx
The ideal of happiness has always taken material form in the house, whether cottage or castle; it stands for permanence and separation from the world. — Simone de Beauvoir
Revolutionaries are rarely motivated primarily by material considerations-though the illusion that they are persists in the West. — Henry A. Kissinger
The comedians all finished their acts with a song. They would get a certain amount of money from the song publishers and would use that… — Denis Norden

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