Dreams Quote by H.L. Mencken

It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their…

— H. L. Mencken

“Isn’t materialism the cause of much that is evil in the land of mortal souls?”

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

“In the grip of madness, materialism begins to look like an admirable belief system.”

— Emma Forrest

“Materialism—an attachment to physical goods beyond their practical value—was a trap; a chain to ensnare the foolish with their own greed.”

— Drew Karpyshyn

“Although we may suffer from idolatry, we do not, I think, suffer from materialism - from the overvaluing of material objects for their own…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

“When people are treated like a product, they become obsessed with materialism.”

— Bryant McGill

“Equally condemned, in wealthy Western nations, is materialism that degrades the human mind and spirit - that can, in fact, in an age of…

— H.W. Crocker III

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

“By banishing metaphysics, materialism has no longer an ethical system, knows no longer the distinction between good and evil, possesses no moral law, no…

— Herman Bavinck

“No high-minded man, no man of right feeling, can contemplate the lumbering and slovenly lying of the present day without grieving to see a…

— Mark Twain

... it is a welcome symptom in an age which is commonly denounced as materialistic, that it makes heroes of men whose goals lie…

— Albert Einstein

“This world, in which reason is more and more at home, is not habitable. It is hard and cold like those depots in which…

— Emmanuel Lévinas