Bounds Quote by Vladimir Lenin

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

The material universe exists only in the mind.

— Jonathan Edwards

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

— Vladimir Lenin

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

“Those who maintain that mind is the reality and matter an evil dream are called "idealists"—a word which has a different meaning in philosophy…

— Bertrand Russell

One way of saying that is that there is an objective reality beyond our mind. A way to think of this in a philosophic…

— Edgar Mitchell

“Material things have closed boundaries; they are not accessible, cannot be penetrated, by things outside themselves. But one's existence as a spiritual being involves…

— Josef Pieper

“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

“Our beliefs shape how we perceive reality to be, and the belief that shapes our current perception of reality was adopted by the worldview…

— Joseph P. Kauffman

“The unlucky fact that our current mechanistic materialism rests on muddled, outdated notions of matter isn’t often mentioned today.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

“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