Materialistic Quotes

186 quotes by 143 authors

The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic. — Edward Abbey
Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)â€”Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all works, has already… — Walt Whitman
Protest to be effective, must be followed by resolute action and at this crisis in world history when materialistic energy aims at overthrowing spiritual energy… — Vida Goldstein
Organization for action will now and in the decade ahead center upon America's white middle class. That is where the power is. ... Our rebels… — Saul Alinsky
England has become a squalid, uncomfortable, ugly place ... an intolerant, racist, homophobic, narrow-minded, authoritarian, rat-hole run by vicious, suburban-minded, materialistic philistines. — Hanif Kureishi
Posterity will one day laugh at the sublime foolishness of the modern materialistic philosophy. The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at… — Louis Pasteur
The materialistic paradigm of Western science has been a major obstacle for any objective evaluation of the data describing the events occurring at the time… — Stanislav Grof
Psychoanalysis justifies its importance by asserting that it forces you to look to and accept reality. But what sort of reality? A reality conditioned by… — Mircea Eliade
Just how we fit into the plans of the Great Architect and how much He has assigned us to do, we do not know, but… — Robert Andrews Millikan
If the conquest of a great peak brings moments of exultation and bliss, which in the monotonous, materialistic existence of modern times nothing else can… — Lionel Terray
A merely symbolic religion does not threaten the ruling regime of materialistic science. — Nancy Pearcey
It is our homes and families that need reforming in this increasingly materialistic and secular world. — M. Russell Ballard
The entire money structure and materialistic society is a false society... — Jacque Fresco
The life sciences contain spiritual values which can never be explained by the materialistic attitude of present day science — Sherwin B. Nuland
A purely materialistic art would be like a tree which is expected to bear fruit without flowering and to sacrifice grace and beauty for mere… — Haile Selassie
The adornment of the body is a human need. I don't see anything superficial about it unless your life becomes very materialistic. — David LaChapelle
As human beings, we're very materialistic and have all this stuff - furs and cars and diamonds and money. — Smokey Robinson
Further, for once, I like the idea that people who think I'm a constant voice for the furthering of the imagination have to see that… — Peter Sotos
Man is the result of a purposeless and materialistic process that did not have him in mind. He was not planned. He is a state… — George Gaylord Simpson
During our long period of slumber the United States government has lost its moral authority. It is owned, operated, and controlled by Wall Street and… — Thomas Naylor

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