Materialism quotes
62 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"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."
"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."
"Let there be as little materialism as possible, with the maximum of spirituality."
"Materialism is the philosophy of the subject who forgets to take account of himself."
"There will be a change in worldview from materialism and failure to conscious evolution. And everyone's potential to participate!"
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"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."
"We must get out of materialism."
"No more materialism, no more this egoism, I must become spiritual."
"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."
"Materialism and all its miseries can never be conquered by materialism."
"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."
"Chârvâkas, a very ancient sect in India, were rank materialists."
"The idea of God grew side by side with the idea of 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."
"Possessions are usually diminished by possession."
"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."
"Naturalism and materialism mean essentially the same thing."
"To what faults do you feel most indulgent? To the ones that arise from urgent material needs."
"You have to decide to servant the gods of materialism all around us or the true and the living God."
"Materialism is the consciousness of wanting to exploit and enjoy."
"I've always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you."
"Invisible harmony is better than visible."
