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.

There must be more to life than having everything.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.

Materialism is an identity crisis.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.