Computers Quote by Nancy Pearcey

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

— John Searle

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

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

Materialism lives outside the lines of my reality

— The Game

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

“The spiritualist or the idealist believes in a spiritual essence of force; spiritual, that is to say phantomatic, inexplicable. The man of materialist science…

— Joseph Dietzgen

Materialism means simply the denial that the moral order is eternal, and the cutting off of ultimate hopes; spiritualism means theaffirmation of an eternal…

— William James

The moral peril to humanity of thoughtlessly accepting these conveniences [of materialism] (with their inherent disadvantages) as constituting a philosophy of life is now…

— Aldous Huxley

The cure for materialism is to have enough for everybody and to share. When people are sure of having what they need they cease…

— Henry Ford

“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

Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.

— Henri Frederic Amiel