Materialism Quotes
Materialism Quote of the day
No social system will bring us happiness, health and prosperity unless it is inspired by something greater than materialism.
I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news
The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism.
The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
Solipsism may be logically consistent with present Quantum Mechanics, Monism in the sense of Materialism is not.
Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.
Individually, people are finding that a simpler lifestyle provides greater satisfaction than relentless pursuit of materialism.
Baseball is too much of a sport to be called a business, and too much of a business to be called a sport.
A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it.
We have to shift our emphasis from economic efficiency and materialism towards a sustainable quality of life and to healing of our society, of our people and our ecological systems.
In the West many Christians have an abundance of material possessions, yet they live in a backslidden state.
Modern materialists and religious extremists alike lack the spiritual animistic reverence for non-human beings that every culture once understood as a given.
Hold material goods and wealth on a flat palm and not in a clenched fist.
Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no longer believes in God: for it is perhaps your own coldness and avarice and mediocrity and materialism and selfishness that have chilled his faith.
Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
Materialism is incomplete even as a theory of the physical world, since the physical world includes conscious organisms among its most striking occupants.
The real problems of our planet are not economic or technical, they are philosophical. The philosophy of unbridled materialism is being challenged by events.
Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical.
The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul still in its grip.
Free will is the sensation of making a choice. The sensation is real, but the choice seems illusory. Laws of physics determine the future.
The real opposition is that between the ego-bound man, whose existence is structured by the principle of having, and the free man, who has overcome his egocentricity.
I hear an almost inaudible but pervasive discontent with the price we pay for our current materialism. And I hear a fluttering of hope that there might be more to life than bread and circuses.
Materialism is toxic to happiness, and we are losing our connection to the natural world.
If capitalism begins as the practical idealism of the aspiring bourgeoisie, it ends ... as an orgy of materialism.
Meditation means to be free from all phenomena and calmness means to be internally unperturbed. There will be calmness when one is free from external objects and is not perturbed.
That feeling of freedom, open highways of possibilities, has kind of been lost to materialism and marketing.
They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.
Instead of loving people and using money, people often love money and use people.
Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else.
Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious.
Whoever prefers the material comforts of life over intellectual wealth is like the owner of a palace who moves into the servants’ quarters and leaves the sumptuous rooms empty.
