Materialism Quotes
For even if we know very little that is certain about spirit or soul, the true nature of the body, of materiality, is totally unknown and incomprehensible to us.
Like many another materialist, that is, he lied cleverly on the basis of insufficient knowledge, because the knowledge supplied seemed to his own particular intelligence inadmissible.("The Wendigo")
The minute you hear a sermon on materialism, you're glad somebody else is there to hear it.
We all need new ideas, images, and experiences far more than we need new stoves or cars or computers.
For the genuine materialist there is no fundamental, but only a gradual, an “evolutionary” difference, between man and a pest, a noxious insect
But what is the point of buying vegetables in plastic bags? Everything from the supermarket smells of plastic. Everything from the market smells like it’s supposed to.
If you are dissatisfied with what you have, Then you will never be satisfied with what you have.
I Guess there is a Limited Gap in this Republic of Bananas due to the DeKay N Y is Le Vice such an alarming Exchange when you Express your Benetton? Ask Tommy, he’ll figure!
As there would be no more inheritance, there would be no more greed. Peter Kropotkin
The author says the earliest Australian aborigines devoted extraordinary amounts of energy to enterprises no one now can understand.
If we would remember that all the trees of earth are marked for the woodman's axe, we should not be so ready to build our nests in them.
Proper society did not think about MAKING money, only about spending it.
In the heir's world, where everything was available, the unattainable had a wild allure.
He fetishized limits.
Technophillia is our natural state: we love our object and follow where they lead.
Pointing out the possible, and expensive, entanglements that could come with widespread commercial enterprise, the author calculates the Great Britain was at war half the time between 1689 and 1783.
Remember, the security and happiness you are seeking is not in your material possessions, your degrees, or relationships. It is much closer than you think.
Amid the war the capitalists were asserting national necessity.
Security is by far the city's predominant business.
I do not find theism any more credible than materialism as a comprehensive world view. My interest is in the territory between them.
On observing 1963 America for the first time, the author says that organization and standardization to a certain degree compete with divine providence.
One successful writer said he would never be a millionaire because he liked living like one too much.
The task of defending capitalism was still important to leave to the capitalists.
Whether you buy a new TV, or car, (etc.) or any other “material” thing is often “immaterial” to God.
Civilians who volunteer generally wish to escape, not to share, privatizations worse than their own.
Shopkeepers —the great landed and commercial interests—regularly sat and slept, and where the two publicans occupied pews, but seldom made even the pretence of worshipping.
This work of making trade righteous, of Christianizing trade, looks like the very hardest the Gospel has ever had to take in hand—in England at any rate.
Grey hoped the Church would yet be able to save England from the fate of Tyre or Carthage, the great trading nations
The more things we accumulate, the more cluttered our lives become, and the more stressed we feel as we are compelled to think about them. Life is about people not about things.
Those who think of their house as only a ‘machine to live in’ should judge their point of view by that Neolithic man, who also lived in a house, but a house that embodied a cosmology.
...to alienate human beings from their own decision-making is to change them into objects.
The job wouldn't be just put the summer, but for a long time, as long as she could see ahead. Once they were used to the money coming in it would be impossible to do without again.
We have too quickly bought into the lie that we’ll be happier with more—and as a result, too often miss the joy that comes from owning less.
James Bond: a paid assassin of plutocratic cartels, a womanizer, a dipsomaniac, a speed demon, a materialist.
You can’t really, truly love a thing. Love is only possible between beings or groups of beings. Love of a thing doesn’t work because it can’t love back.
A lot of people with a lot of ill gotten wealth may think that they have high net worth, but will simply never be worthy of any trust or respect.
They might have you, and they pay badly enough to guarantee you decent company.
It's not what you have on the outside that glitters in light, it's what you have on the inside that shines in the dark.
