Material Quotes

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What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant well-being, and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of… — John Ruskin
Economic development over the past two centuries has taken most of humanity from lives that were brutal, ignorant and short, to personal health and security,… — Ross Garnaut
Those who have not found their true wealth, which is the radiant joy of Being and the deep, unshakable peace that comes with it, are… — Eckhart Tolle
Your spikes, which were really quite long then, would catch the material of the track and your shoe would get heavier. I was simply filing… — Roger Bannister
The moment our discourse rises above the ground-line of familiar facts, and is inflamed with passion or exalted thought, it clothes itself in images. A… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of… — Susan Sontag
It can be frustrating and even frightening to observe the success which sometimes comes to outlaws and rogues who seem to refute notions of universal… — Michael Josephson
When all material advancements utilized in spiritual need that is the real advancement of human civilization. — Bhakti Charu Swami
But with regard to the material world, we can at least go so far as this;-we can perceive that events are brought about, not by… — William Whewell
It is natural selection that gives direction to changes, orients chance, and slowly, progressively produces more complex structures, new organs, and new species. Novelties come… — Francois Jacob
One of the most striking results of modern investigation has been the way in which several different and quite independent lines of evidence indicate that… — Henry Norris Russell
Physio-philosophy has to show how, and in accordance indeed with what laws, the Material took its origin; and, therefore, how something derived its existence from… — Lorenz Oken
The essence of Darwinism lies in its claim that natural selection creates the fit. Variation is ubiquitous and random in direction. It supplies raw material… — Stephen Jay Gould
Every one knows that the heavenly bodies move in certain paths in relation to each other with seeming consistency and regularity which we call [physical]… — Clarence Darrow
I should . . . prefer swallowing one incomprehensibility rather than two. It requires one effort only to admit the single incomprehensibility of matter endowed… — Thomas Jefferson
Water, the Hub of Life. Water is its mater and matrix, mother and medium. Water is the most extraordinary substance! Practically all its properties are… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
You can think your self to be great, you can go on thinking your self to be great, till you see all fellow devotees going… — Radhanath Swami
I remember an old Singer sewing machine at home that belonged to my grandmother. It had a pedal. My mom taught me how to use… — Bibhu Mohapatra
I grew up in a Jewish family, and we have raised our children in a Jewish tradition. Religion gives a framework for moral enquiry in… — Michael Sandel
In the Pythagorean system, thinking about numbers, or doing mathematics, was an inherently masculine task. Mathematics was associated with the gods, and with transcendence from… — Margaret Wertheim

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