Civil society Quote by Karl Marx

“An attitude to life which seeks fulfilment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world,…

— E. F. Schumacher

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

“Materialism, to some extent, requires that the consumer is not fully present or happy. In the moments of a spending frenzy you feel more…

— Patsy Rodenburg

“Historical materialism has every reason to distinguish itself sharply from bourgeois habits of thought. Its founding concept is not progress but actualization.”

— Walter Benjamin

Materialism is the consciousness of wanting to exploit and enjoy.

— Radhanath Swami

“The contemplative life remains freely available to us through our choices—what we read and buy, how we commit to leisure and self-improvement, the passing…

— Franklin Foer

Materialism is the philosophy of the subject who forgets to take account of himself.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Materialism lives outside the lines of my reality

— The Game

“Anyone can pursue their own particular passion and still embrace the collective and individual tenets of simplicity, presence, and accomplishment.”

— Michael Lombardi

“As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to talk of…

— John Piper

“The material world constrain us, often with gret beneficence, to see each person and thing in its time and place, its historical context. But…

— Elaine Scarry

“Materialism is a conviction based not upon evidence or logic but upon what Carl Sagan (speaking of another kind of faith) called a “deep-seated…

— David Bentley Hart