Foolishness Quote by Louis Pasteur

Posterity will one day laugh at the sublime foolishness of the modern materialistic philosophy. The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed…

— Louis Pasteur

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

— Tyler Burge

Any materialist philosophy must take as its point of departure the existence of a material world that is independent of our minds.

— Manuel De Landa

How posterity will laugh at us, one way or other! If half a dozen break their necks, and balloonism is exploded, we shall be…

— Horace Walpole

“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

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

— Emma Forrest

We may receive so much light as not to see, and so much philosophy as to be worse than foolish.

— Walter Savage Landor

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.

— Denis Diderot

“It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking all their gaudy visions…

— H.L. Mencken

The most loathsome materialism is not the kind people usually think of, but the sort that attempts to let dead ideas pass for living…

— Albert Camus

Every materialist will be an idealist; but an idealist can never go backward to be a materialist.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson