Material Quotes

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Meaning doesn't lie in things. Meaning lies in us. When we attach value to things that aren't love - the money, the car, the house,… — Marianne Williamson
Possession of material riches, without inner peace, is like dying of thirst while bathing in a lake. If material poverty is to be avoided, spiritual… — Paramahansa Yogananda
Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools. — Francis Bacon
The truth is, the Science of Nature has been already too long made only a work of the Brain and the Fancy: It is now… — Robert Hooke
This, however, seems to be certain: the ichor, that is, the material I have mentioned that finally becomes red, exists before the heart begins to… — Marcello Malpighi
Natural causes, as we know, are at work, which tend to modify, if they do not at length destroy, all the arrangements and dimensions of… — James Clerk Maxwell
Without the slightest doubt there is something through which material and spiritual energy hold togehter and are complementary. In the last analysis, somehow or other,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
By our little acts of charity practiced in the shade we convert souls far away, we help missionaries, we win for them abundant alms; and… — Therese of Lisieux
Blessed be Thou, my Lord Jesus Christ, who didst foretell Thy death before the time, and in the Last Supper didst wonderfully consecrate Thy precious… — Brigit of Kildare
One farmer says to me, "You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make the bones with;" and so he religiously… — Henry David Thoreau
As clouds are blown away by the wind, the thirst for material pleasures will be driven away by the utterance of the Lord's name. — Sarada Devi
Mental happiness is more important than physical comfort. Physical comfort comes from the material. But material facilities cannot provide you with peace of mind. — Dalai Lama
If we slide into one of those rare moments of military honesty, we realize that the technical demands of modern warfare are so complex a… — Ernest K. Gann
If we were never depressed we would not be alive - - only material things don't suffer depression. If human beings were not capable of… — Oswald Chambers
We need material development, but we need to understand that by itself it doesn't bring peace of mind. — Dalai Lama
What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have. — Lionel Trilling
Don't stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit. — Robert Henri
Science is not marginal. Like art, it is a universal possession of humanity, and scientific knowledge has become a vital part of our species' repertory.… — E. O. Wilson
Technology innovation is starting to explode and having open-source material out there really helps this explosion. You get students and researchers involved and you get… — Tim Berners-Lee
Yes, we did produce a near perfect republic. But will they keep it? Or will they, in the enjoyment of plenty, lose the memory of… — Thomas Jefferson

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