Action Quote by George Santayana

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

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

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

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 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

To accept Naturalism is to reject such entities as Cartesian minds, private visual and tactual spaces, angelic beings and God.

— David Malet Armstrong

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

The rejection of all abstract formalism. Materialism reminds every science of its real source: the world men transform. No science can, whether in its…

— Louis Althusser

“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

“The general argument from the contingent to the absolute, or from the conditioned to the unconditioned, is a powerful and cogent one. No attempt,…

— David Bentley Hart