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The trouble is that the expression 'material thing' is functioning already, from the very beginning, simply as a foil for 'sense-datum'; it is not…

— J. L. Austin

All material Things seem to have been composed of the hard and solid Particles ... variously associated with the first Creation by the Counsel…

— Isaac Newton

Materialism is the recognition of "objects in themselves", or outside the mind; ideas and sensations are copies of images of those objects.

— Vladimir Lenin

We don't see the material world for what it is meant to be: the means to communion with God.... There is a belief missing,…

— Ann Voskamp

I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material but I know it when I see it.

— Potter Stewart

What a thing is and what it means are not separate, the former being physical and the latter mental as we are accustomed to…

— James J. Gibson

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

Thing, body, matter, are nothing apart from the combinations of the elements, - the colours, sounds, and so forth - nothing apart from their…

— Ernst Mach

“Lenin clearly and unambiguously poses the question of the relationship between the ‘form’ of materialism and its ‘essence’, of the impermissibility of identification of…

— Evald Ilyenkov

The nature of matter, or body considered in general, consists not in its being something which is hard or heavy or coloured, or which…

— Rene Descartes

“The unlucky fact that our current mechanistic materialism rests on muddled, outdated notions of matter isn’t often mentioned today. We can’t approach important mind-body…

— Mark Booth

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