Material Quotes

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Knowing is not simply a material act, since the object that is known always conceals something beyond the empirical datum. All our knowledge, even the… — Pope Benedict XVI
Usually I avoided college students, whom I considered brutal, wrapped up in themselves, particularly in their youth, in which they found material for drama or… — Francoise Sagan
Extreme poverty is not only a condition of unsatisfied material needs. It is often accompanied by a degrading state of powerlessness. — Peter Singer
Power is a poison well known for thousands of years. If only no one were ever to acquire material power over others! But to the… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Creative work is more accurately a machine that digs down and finds stuff, emotional stuff that will someday be raw material that can be used… — David Byrne
Capitalism has resulted in material well-being but spiritual bankruptcy. — Jeffrey Eugenides
There is a danger there - a very real danger to humanity. Consider, Watson, that the material, the sensual, the worldly would all prolong their… — Arthur Conan Doyle
The alcohol had the effect of making the black cloth blacker. This amused her; she had noted in her journal: "booze affects material as it… — Alice Sebold
The more they lack material things, the more they indulge themselves when they can, but the less is their satisfaction with this world and they… — Sophie Scholl
She died that night. Her last breath took her soul, I saw it in my dream. I saw her soul leave her body as she… — Garth Stein
I know the fashion is that everything is fair game [for comedy material] but I don't believe that. — Craig Ferguson
There is no peace and no rest in the development of material interests. They have their law, and their justice. But it is founded on… — Joseph Conrad
It's experiences in life that give us something to write about, and since good fiction is applied tension, you'll have an arsenal of good material… — Wendelin Van Draanen
Perfect date material, she thought. A vampire with the social equivalent of road rage. ---Beth about Wrath — J R Ward
From the scientific view, the theory of karma may be a metaphysical assumption -- but it is no more so than the assumption that all… — Dalai Lama
Man is more miserable, more restless and unsatisfied than ever before, simply because half his nature--the spiritual--is starving for true food, and the other half--the… — Paul Brunton
Because everybody who has ever lost their way in life has felt the nagging insistence of that question. At some point we all look up… — John Green
A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
...Individualistic material progress and the desire to gain prestige by coming out on top have taken over from the sense of fellowship, compassion and community.… — Jean Vanier
When people love each other, they are content with very little. When we have light and joy in our hearts, we don't need material wealth.… — Jean Vanier

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