Materialism Quotes

He is so rich, he has no room to shit.

To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much, impossible.

Whoever prefers the material comforts of life over intellectual wealth is like the owner of a palace...

the real is coherent and probable because it is real, and not real because it is coherent...

Since science is essentially objective, involving the study of how things actually are, "materialism...

Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul; it consists not in the worth of our ...

The things you spend so much time on--all this work you do--might not seem as important. You might h...

But I do know we’re deficient in some way. We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don...

The great point in Christianity is the search for an independent content for spiritual life which, a...

Being self-owned is a state of mind.

Technologies of easy travel "give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they sp...

Science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is ...

The more narrow-minded a system is the more it will please worldly-wise people. Thus the system of t...

But in spite of this material prosperity he was a slave. His work and his leisure consisted of fever...

The newly-minted captain admits the irony between the gold on his shoulders and the lack of gold in ...

Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in...

...to alienate human beings from their own decision-making is to change them into objects.

The narrator refers to a character as "an oily scoundrel whose hands were heavy with the money that ...

The tyranny of an object, he thought. It doesn't know I exist.

As students grow more and more accustomed to assuming materialism and naturalism in their academic w...

Materialism sets us free from sin-by proving that there is no such thing as sin. There's just antiso...

....I am inclined to think that these muscles and bones of mine would have gone off long ago to Mega...

Justice is useful when money is useless.

Men have looked away from themselves and at things so long that they have come to esteem the religio...

Their constant outward-looking, their mania for radios, cars, and a thousand other trinkets made the...

I felt that it was unfair that my lack of a few pounds of flesh should deprive me of a chance at a g...

If I were a member of the class that rules, I would post men in all the neighborhoods of the nation,...

There is no indisputable proof for the big bang," said Hollus. "And there is none for evolution. And...

We are nature; we are nature as we munch gum and check the phone; we are nature as we queasily regre...

Poverty only tries men's souls. It is loneliness that breaks the heart.

There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but ...

It was a night of early spring,The winter-sleep was scarcely broken;Around us shadows and the windLi...

The beginning of the most materialistic age in the history of the world, when wars would be fought w...

But in the wake of 'Bullet,' all the guys wanted to know was, 'How's it doing? How's it selling?' Ho...

The kind of people we have in Washington only trust what they think they own.

Coming from a business family, she shied away from abstractions.

The supposedly immaterial soul, we now know, can be bisected with a knife, altered by chemicals, sta...

Curiously enough, it seems that at times the spiritual side prevails, and then the materialistic sid...

Riches and abundance come hypocritically clad in sheep's clothing, pretending to be security against...

In post-Nietzschean spirit, the West appears to be busily undermining its own erstwhile metaphysical...

One criticism of Freud still sometimes heard on the political Left is that his thinking is individua...

the average cannot be kept high unless the standard of the leaders is very muchhigher.

In the long run, success or failure will beconditioned upon the way in which the average man, the av...

The leaders of thought and of action grope theirway forward to a new life, realizing, sometimes diml...

[A]nd you may know how little God thinks of money by observing on what bad and contemptible characte...

She seemed to be occupied with of inner chamber of ideas and to have slight need for visible objects...

For, from the time that the Bishop of Rome had gotten to be acknowledged for bishop universal, by pr...

The universe, the whole mass of things that are, is corporeal, that is to say, body, and hath the di...

Shopkeepers —the great landed and commercial interests—regularly sat and slept, and where the two pu...

This work of making trade righteous, of Christianizing trade, looks like the very hardest the Gospel...

Grey hoped the Church would yet be able to save England from the fate of Tyre or Carthage, the great...

The one single use of things which we call our own is that they might be his who hath need of them.

...it is not to be understood that I am with him [Jesus] in all his doctrines. I am a Materialist, h...

The accouterments of life were so rich and varied, so elaborated, that almost no place at all was le...

The books and magazines streamed in. He could buy them all, they piled up around him and even while ...

I believe the defenders of intelligent design deserve our gratitude for challenging a scientific wor...

I do not find theism any more credible than materialism as a comprehensive world view. My interest i...

It is not wonderful. It is an ugly world. Not like this one. Anarres is all dusty and dry hills. All...

o. It is not wonderful. It is an ugly world. Not like this one. Anarres is all dusty and dry hills. ...

Because there is nothing, nothing on Urras that we Anarresti need! We left with empty hands, a hundr...

Pretty Stones

We dabble in many things; but the one great real idea of our age, not copied from any other, not pre...

To have so little, and it of so little value, was to be quaintly free.

Renouncing false beliefs will not usher in the millennium. Few things about the strategy of contempo...

If something possesses no capacity for activity whatever, it is nothing; it may be wholly penetrated...

In terms of "quiet" bourgeois democracy two fundamental possibilities are open to the industrial wor...

For even if we know very little that is certain about spirit or soul, the true nature of the body, o...

William Carey chides his countrymen for deciding it would be impossible for the Gospel to travel ove...

That’s what money will buy you, in America,” Brown had said, firmly. “People say Americans are mater...

A man's Self is the sum total of all that he can call his, not only his body and his psychic powers,...

The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immed...

Winnie the Pooh finds comfort in counting his pots of honey, and Rabbit finds comfort in knowing whe...

The Whites have carried to these (colonial) people the worst that they could carry: the plagues of t...

The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word "lu...

The essence of the charge made against the modern high-status ideal is that it is guilty of effectin...

We are tempted to believe that certain achievements and possessions will give us enduring satisfacti...

He looked at them and saw their faces did not fit. The skin on the skulls crawled and twitched like ...

Our life consists not in the pursuit of material success but in the quest for worthy spiritual growt...

We always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.

On the way from the Renaissance to our days we have enriched our experience, but we have lost the co...

Philosophy, that leaned on Heaven before,Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more.

We may see the small Value God has for Riches, by the People he gives the

To wait at Monte Cristo for the purpose of watching like a dragon over the almost incalculable richs...

Why does a steward steal? He steals because he's not sure he'll always remain with his master and wa...

Melancholy in a capitalist, like the appearance of a comet, presages some misfortune to the world.

The life of my people is to remember forever; each head granary is full. The life of your people is ...

You [demagogues] are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thor...

I don't know what the hell I'm workin' for. Sometimes I sit in my apartment–all alone. And I think o...

The fundamental absurdity of materialism is that it starts from the objective, and takes as the ulti...

[Materialism] seeks the primary and most simple state of matter, and then tries to develop all the o...

How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could ...

The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established...

It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living free...

The 'practical' man, as this word is often used, is one who recognizes only the material needs, who ...

The author says the earliest Australian aborigines devoted extraordinary amounts of energy to enterp...

Free will is the sensation of making a choice. The sensation is real, but the choice seems illusory....

This is the even-handed dealing of the world!" he said. "There is noth-ing on which it is so hard as...

I found myself with a perseverance worthy of a much better cause.

Get out of this office! I'll have no feelings here.

About once or twice every month I engage in public debates with those whose pressing need it is to w...