Deny Quote by George Berkeley

I maintain also that substances, whether material or immaterial, cannot be conceived in their bare essence without any activity, activity being of the essence…

— Gottfried Leibniz

The trouble is that the expression 'material thing' is functioning already, from the very beginning, simply as a foil for 'sense-datum'; it is not…

— J. L. Austin

Materialism ends up denying the existence of any irreducible subjective qualitative states of sentience or awareness.

— John Searle

Material things are not to be despised-without them there can be no manifestation in the material world.

— Sri Aurobindo

MATERIAL, adj. Having an actual existence, as distinguished from an imaginary one. Important.

— Ambrose Bierce

Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another. I maintain also that substances,…

— Gottfried Leibniz

I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material but I know it when I see it.

— Potter Stewart

When we try in good faith to believe in materialism, in the exclusive reality of the physical, we are asking our selves to step…

— John Updike

We don't see the material world for what it is meant to be: the means to communion with God.... There is a belief missing,…

— Ann Voskamp

The most consistent versions of materialism deny the reality of anything beyond matter - no soul, no spirit, no will, no mind. This is…

— Nancy Pearcey

The materialist assumption that spiritual substances do not exist is as much an act of faith as the religious belief in the reality of…

— Mortimer Adler

“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