Age Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“When once we quit the basis of sensation, all is in the wind. To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of nothings .…

— Thomas Jefferson

“To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of nothings. To say that the human soul, angels, god, are immaterial, is to say they…

— Richard Dawkins

"God is a spirit." But that does not make him an immaterial being —a being that has no properties in common with matter. The…

— Orson Pratt

There is no such thing as immaterial matter. All spirit is matter, but is more fine or pure, and can only be discerned by…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

The question between the materialists and me is not, whether things have a real existence out of the mind of this or that person,…

— George Berkeley

“Although the Being (Universal Mind) is not material, it does not mean that we cannot, conditionally, call this Mind an immaterial “substance.” This clarification…

— Dejan Stojanovic

The materialist assumption that spiritual substances do not exist is as much an act of faith as the religious belief in the reality of…

— Mortimer Adler

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

What doubts, what hypotheses, what labyrinths of amusement, what fields of disputation, what an ocean of false learning, may be avoided by that single…

— George Berkeley

“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

We declare that only man exists. This is not to say that material, inorganic nature and nonhuman beings-animals and plants-are in any sense unreal,…

— Medard Boss

The statements of atheists ought to be perfectly clear of doubt. Now it is not perfectly clear that the soul is material.

— Blaise Pascal