Material World Quotes

83 quotes by 72 authors

Consciousness does not just passively reflect the objective material world; it plays an active role in creating reality itself. — Stanislav Grof
I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book. — Patti Smith
Invention is the most important product of man's creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing… — Nikola Tesla
The artist seeks contact with his intuitive sense of the gods, but in order to create his work, he cannot stay in this seductive and… — Patti Smith
Life is an experimental journey undertaken involuntarily. It is a journey of the spirit through the material world and, since it is the spirit that… — Fernando Pessoa
the material world and the flesh are only temporary - there are no sins of the flesh, spirit is everything! — Leslie Marmon Silko
How can we satisfy ourselves without going on in infinitum? And, after all, what satisfaction is there in that infinite progression? Let us remember the… — David Hume
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
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
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
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
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
It does not appear to me to be open to question that there is in the soul of man a nature and an order obtaining… — George Edward Woodberry
Seeking can become stressful when you apply the same laws that you apply in the material world - hard work, exacting plans, driving ambition, and… — Deepak Chopra
Modern scientific knowledge appeared piecemeal. Historians wrote about human history; physicists tackled the material world; and biologists studied the world of living organisms. But there… — David Christian
The beauty of existence is that we get past the superficialities and material world and hopefully move into - lord - hopefully a bit of… — Gwendoline Christie
We live in a material world, not a dramatic one. And truth resides not in melodrama, but in the precise measure of material things. — Richard Flanagan
Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view… — Mary Garden
I would say I was still a Marxist - which is not to be confused with being a Communist. Despite its flaws, Marxism still seems… — Alexei Sayle
Despite its flaws, Marxism still seems to explain the material world better than anything else. — Alexei Sayle

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