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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… — James A. Baldwin
• The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism. — H. P. Blavatsky
• Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false. — Henri Frederic Amiel
• It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from life. Our… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• Universal appreciation of art... belongs to those countries and those ages which are not, or were not, ruled by materialism. Though travel… — Walter J. Phillips
• Some atheists are quite explicit that their atheism comes first. One of the most famous is Richard Lewontin, a professor of genetics,… — John Lennox
• To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of nothings. To say that the human soul, angels, god, are immaterial, is to… — Thomas Jefferson
• Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no longer believes in God: for it is perhaps your own coldness… — Thomas Merton
• Mark, therefore, the ordinary theory of practical religion, what it leads to. Charity is great, but the moment you say it is… — Swami Vivekananda
• Walking the spiritual path properly is a very subtle process; it is not something to jump into naively. There are numerous sidetracks… — Chogyam Trungpa
• It seems mutants have something in their lives called gravy. They know truth, but it is buried under thickening and spices of… — Marlo Morgan
• He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first stone upon… — Ludwig von Mises

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