Materialism Quotations

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

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

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

Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.

There must be more to life than having everything.

It all depends on whether you have things, or they have you.

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

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

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

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 coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.

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

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

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

Materialism is an identity crisis.

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.

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

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

To what faults do you feel most indulgent? To the ones that arise from urgent material needs.

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.

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 ends up denying the existence of any irreducible subjective qualitative states of sentience or awareness.

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

Naturalism and materialism mean essentially the same thing.

Sex is the mysticism of materialism.

Invisible harmony is better than visible.

The essence of worldliness is exclusion of God.

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.

Materialism is the consciousness of wanting to exploit and enjoy.

If capitalism begins as the practical idealism of the aspiring bourgeoisie, it ends ... as an orgy of materialism.

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

Are you winning the battle against materialism?

Materialism is incomplete even as a theory of the physical world, since the physical world includes conscious organisms among its most striking occupants.

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.

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

People once considered that religions were obsolete and that material science would solve all human problems. Then they have become disillusioned with materialism and machinery and have realized that spiritual sciences are also indispensable for human welfare.

You have to decide to servant the gods of materialism all around us or the true and the living God.

I've always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you.

Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

We must get out of materialism.

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

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

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

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.