Brain Quote by John B. S. Haldane

It seems to me that philosophers should be more relaxed about whether or not some form of materialism is true.

— Tyler Burge

“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

“in our materialist culture, such alternate forms of knowledge, whatever they might be, tend to undergo a materialist reduction. This is simply a sociological…

— William A. Dembski

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

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

— John Searle

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

Since science is essentially objective, involving the study of how things actually are, "materialism" would therefore seem to be its antithesis, since its starting…

— Melanie Phillips

I've never been a materialist; I've never been somebody who believes in only what we can see and measure. I continue to be a…

— Scott Derrickson

I think materialism has trumped a lot of stuff, but I don't think it has trumped the heart, especially when it comes to (a…

— Shirley MacLaine

Materialism lives outside the lines of my reality

— The Game

You're a materialist, like all ignorant people. But your materialism doesn't make materialism true. Don't you know that? In the final summing up, it…

— Gene Wolfe

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