Materialism Quotes
261 quotes by 201 authors
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The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs…
— James A. Baldwin
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The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism.
— H. P. Blavatsky
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Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from life. Our objection to scepticism…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Universal appreciation of art... belongs to those countries and those ages which are not, or were not, ruled by materialism. Though travel was never so…
— Walter J. Phillips
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Some atheists are quite explicit that their atheism comes first. One of the most famous is Richard Lewontin, a professor of genetics, who said it…
— John Lennox
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To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of nothings. To say that the human soul, angels, god, are immaterial, is to say they are…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no longer believes in God: for it is perhaps your own coldness and avarice and…
— Thomas Merton
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Mark, therefore, the ordinary theory of practical religion, what it leads to. Charity is great, but the moment you say it is all, you run…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Walking the spiritual path properly is a very subtle process; it is not something to jump into naively. There are numerous sidetracks which leades to…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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It seems mutants have something in their lives called gravy. They know truth, but it is buried under thickening and spices of convenience, materialism, insecurity,…
— Marlo Morgan
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He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first stone upon the materialism of…
— Ludwig von Mises
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If materialism is true, it seems to me that we cannot know that it is true. If my opinions are the result of the chemical…
— John B. S. Haldane
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We are in the grip of a scientific materialism, caught in a vicious cycle where our security today seems to depend on regimentation and weapons…
— Charles Lindbergh
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From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up ... . And why is this done? For no other reason,…
— Adam Sedgwick
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Science...has become identified with a philosophy known as materialism or scientific naturalism. This philosophy insists that nature is all there is, or at least the…
— Phillip E. Johnson
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I maintain that the human mystery is incredibly demeaned by scientific reductionism, with its claim in promissory materialism to account eventually for all of the…
— John Eccles
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It is worth remembering (though there is nothing that we can do about it) that the world as it really is may easily be a…
— C. D. Broad
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The famous Greek physician Hippocrates administered musical treatments to his patients in 400 B.C. Although this type of treatment did not originate with him, it…
— Corinne Heline
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Zionism is only around 100 years old. It is the transformation from religion to nationalism, to materialism created by non-religious Jews who hated their religion.…
— Yisroel Dovid Weiss
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