Human dignity Quote by Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

“The fundamental absurdity of materialism is that it starts from the objective, and takes as the ultimate ground of explanation something objective, whether it…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Philosophers often appear to intend to want to get answers about humans that we can't get about insects, and that's too much, yaknow?”

— Noam Chomsky

The moral peril to humanity of thoughtlessly accepting these conveniences [of materialism] (with their inherent disadvantages) as constituting a philosophy of life is now…

— Aldous Huxley

By nature, I am a materialist... It is exactly these impingements upon our sense of touch and so forth that I'm interested in.

— Carl Andre

“Materialism, it must be understood, is a premise of science, not a finding.”

— Gordon White

Materialism has cast man into such depths that a mighty concentration of forces is necessary to raise him again. He is subject to illnesses…

— Rudolf Steiner

Evolutionists ... have a prior commitment, a commitment to naturalism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to…

— Richard Lewontin

Striving for longevity through versatility facilitates what we might call an ecological or true materialism. ... we are not truly materialist because we fail…

— Juliet B. Schor

Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the life of man, how unimportant or indeed merely seeming,…

— Richard Le Gallienne

Insects have their own point of view about civilization a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a…

— Don Marquis

“The very pathetic myth of "beneficent nature" could not deceive even the least wise being if he once saw for himself the iron cruelty…

— Theodore Roosevelt

As an explanation of the world materialism has a sort of insane simplicity. It has the quality of a madman's arguments; we have at…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton