Material Quotes

2445 Material quotes by 1790 unique authors

You are not the sum of your physical, mental, emotional life, but you are designed for the spiritual. The whole design of the human being… — Nirmala Srivastava
Either you lead a life which is luxurious on the material level or you lead a luxurious life of God's blessings. One of these two… — Nirmala Srivastava
Undeveloped though the science [of chemistry] is, it already has great power to bring benefits. Those accruing to physical welfare are readily recognized, as in… — Henry Taube
We sometimes fear to bring our troubles to God, because they must seem small to Him who sitteth on the circle of the earth. But… — Reuben Archer Torrey
There is no thing as a man who does not create mathematics and yet is a fine mathematics teacher. Textbooks, course material-these do not approach… — Alfred Adler
For nearly a hundred years, we have known that the material world is an illusion. Everything that seems solid - a rock, a tree, your… — Deepak Chopra
The resurrection asserts a truth which is by no means always written legibly for all men on the face of nature. It tells us that… — Henry Parry Liddon
In his scientific genius, man has wrought material miracles and has transformed his world. He has harnassed nature and has developed great civilizations. But he… — Ralph Bunche
Only a few people seem to realize that social harmony and peace with nature, between people, and within the individual only can come about when… — Fethullah Gulen
Material wealth is either a window through which we see God or a mirror in which we see ourselves. — Warren W. Wiersbe
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

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