Materialism Quotes

No social system will bring us happiness, health and prosperity unless it is inspired by something greater than materialism.

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.

Contrary to what they tell you... You are not a limited material being.

Solipsism may be logically consistent with present Quantum Mechanics, Monism in the sense of Materialism is not.

An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn't called a decade of greed.

Individually, people are finding that a simpler lifestyle provides greater satisfaction than relentless pursuit of materialism.

There must be more to life than having everything.

Marxism is not only the theory of socialism, it is an integral world outlook, a philosophical system, from which Marx’s proletarian socialism logically follows. This philosophical system is called dialectical materialism.

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.

Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical.

Religion without science is superstition. Science without religion is materialism.

The essence of worldliness is exclusion of God.

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.

Materialism is an identity crisis.

Let there be as little materialism as possible, with the maximum of spirituality.

All of us experience the sad effects of blind submission to consumerism. In the first place it represents crass materialism. At the same time it represents a radical dissatisfaction because one quickly learns that the more one possesses, the more one wants, while deeper aspirations remain unsatisfied and perhaps even stifled.

Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.

Americans consume three quarters of the world's anti-depressants because materialism will never bring happiness.

There is one advantage to having nothing, it never needs repair.

Materialism is the philosophy of the subject who forgets to take account of himself.

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.

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.

There will be a change in worldview from materialism and failure to conscious evolution. And everyone's potential to participate!

Dualism makes the problem insoluble; materialism denies the existence of any phenomenon to study, and hence of any problem.

No more materialism, no more this egoism, I must become spiritual.

Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.

The grace that has freed us from bondage to sin is desperately needed to free us from our bondage to materialism.

We must get out of materialism.

All earthly joy begins pleasantly, but at the end it gnaws and kills.

The Feminist Standpoint: Developing the Ground for a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism

You cannot solve the problem by turning to communism, for communism is based on an ethical relativism and a metaphysical materialism that no Christian can accept.

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

Chârvâkas, a very ancient sect in India, were rank materialists.

Now, science cannot completely exclude the possibility of supernatural explanation. It is possible though very unlikely that our whole world is controlled by elves. But supernatural explanations like these are simply never needed; we manage to understand the natural world just fine using reason and materialism.

It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from life. Our objection to scepticism is that it removes the motive power. Materialism is not a thing which destroys mere restraint. Materialism itself is the great restraint.

The idea of God grew side by side with the idea of materialism.

Materialism and all its miseries can never be conquered by materialism.

A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.

Neither idealists nor materialists are right; we must take both idea and expression.

To believe that mind is all, that thought is all is only a higher materialism.

Possessions are usually diminished by possession.

Look, Salvador Dali did not paint because he needed the money. No conversation about materialism and music makes sense. You make music and that's that, it doesn't matter why.

The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.

It really is a very radical call ... to reject materialism as our central value and to think about the sanctity of life and what that really means if we take it seriously.

Sex is the mysticism of materialism.

How good something is should never be determined by its cost, designer, origin, or its perceived value by others.

Because a human is a someone and not a something, the source of human life must also be a Someone - not the blind, automatic forces of nature, as philosophies like naturalism and materialism tell us.

In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.