Materialism Quotes
The natural scientist must be a modern materialist, a conscious adherent of the materialism represented by Marx, i.e., he must be a dialectical materialist.
People are realizing that what seemed important to them in their lives-materialism and consumerism-doesn't work at all to make a happy heart. It actually makes an unhappy heart. And an unhappy world.
Pay no attention to pop culture, for it is what poisons our minds and divides our children. Materialism promotes negative values and egotism. Eliminate all of it. It is the plague of Big Business.
Possibly the words materialism and spirituality express two sides of one and the same fact.
Envy never comes to the ball dressed as envy; it comes dressed as high moral standards or distaste for materialism.
Do not be caught up in materialism, one of the real plagues of our generation-that is, acquiring things, fast-paced living, and securing career success.
Materialism is the philosophy of the subject who forgets to take account of himself.
It's no secret that in New York during the last 30 years there has been a tragic exodus from the churches into materialism, secularism and humanism.
Only just now awakening after years of materialism, our soul is still infected with the despair born of unbelief, of lack of purpose and aim.
Materialism is the recognition of "objects in themselves", or outside the mind; ideas and sensations are copies of images of those objects.
There is direct correlation between a society lacking in artistic vision to lack of social conscience, i.e., crime, poverty, and senseless, violent atrocities, materialism.
The cure for materialism is to have enough for everybody and to share. When people are sure of having what they need they cease to think about it.
Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still entangled with the desire for ownership.
The most consistent versions of materialism deny the reality of anything beyond matter - no soul, no spirit, no will, no mind. This is called reductionism: Humans are reduced to biochemical machines.
This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the world.
Who lives as a citizen, may write as a philosopher - but write as a philosopher, it is to teach materialism!
The Master said, “If your conduct is determined solely by considerations of profit you will arouse great resentment.
String theory is an attempt at a deeper description of nature by thinking of an elementary particle not as a little point but as a little loop of vibrating string.
Materialism sets us free from sin-by proving that there is no such thing as sin. There's just antisocial behavior, which we can control with measures like laws and educational programs.
Materialism means simply the denial that the moral order is eternal, and the cutting off of ultimate hopes; spiritualism means theaffirmation of an eternal moral order and the letting loose of hope.
The sole "property" of matter with whose recognition philosophical materialism is bound up is the property of being an objective reality, of existing outside the mind.
It seems to me that philosophers should be more relaxed about whether or not some form of materialism is true.
Science has, after all, made some colossal blunders in the past... Our current materialism and its rejection of the idea of a spirit or soul might be just another great falsity.
The history of prevailing status quos shows decay and decadence infecting the opulent materialism of the Haves. The spiritual life of the Haves is a ritualistic justification of their possessions.
What is necessary to keep providing good care to nature has completely fallen into ignorance during the materialism era.
South Africa is such a fraught place to live. The anxiety about crime, the crunching on racial eggshells, the juxtaposition of First World materialism with Third World squalor.
I question whether I want to be integrated into America as it stands now, with its complacency and materialism, its soullessness.
Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over.
There will be a change in worldview from materialism and failure to conscious evolution. And everyone's potential to participate!
Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.
Dualism makes the problem insoluble; materialism denies the existence of any phenomenon to study, and hence of any problem.
The Christmas tree, twinkling with lights, had a mountain of gifts piled up beneath it, like offerings to the great god of excess.
Let us not forget that revolutions are accomplished through people, although they be nameless. Materialism does not ignore the feeling, thinking, and acting man, but explains him.
After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared.
The Hindus have to learn a little bit of materialism from the West and teach them a little bit of spirituality.
The church is challenging such negative cultural elements as superstition, rugged individualism, materialism, hedonism, permissiveness and utilitarianism.
Charity is great, but the moment you say it is all, you run the risk of running into materialism.
The grace that has freed us from bondage to sin is desperately needed to free us from our bondage to materialism.
The Feminist Standpoint: Developing the Ground for a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism
We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies.
The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.
The algorithms that orchestrate our ads are starting to orchestrate our lives.
The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.