Causes Quote by John Cleese

We are generalists. You can't draw neat lines around planet-wide problems. Planetology is a cut-and-fit science.

— Frank Herbert

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

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

Materialism is incomplete even as a theory of the physical world, since the physical world includes conscious organisms among its most striking occupants.

— Thomas Nagel

Materialists try to live in the lower story NON-MATERIAL WORLD Subjective, Superstitious, Mental Constructs MATERIAL WORLD Objective, Scientific, Knowable Facts

— Nancy Pearcey

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

— Tyler Burge

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

I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.

— Simone de Beauvoir

I am, indeed, an absolute materialist so far as actual belief goes; with not a shred of credence in any form of supernaturalism—religion, spiritualism,…

— Anonymous

The real problems of our planet are not economic or technical, they are philosophical. The philosophy of unbridled materialism is being challenged by events.

— Anonymous

We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.

— Wole Soyinka

Any planet is 'Earth' to those that live on it.

— Isaac Asimov