Materialism Quotes - Page 2

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

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

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

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

We must get out of materialism.

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

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Possessions are usually diminished by possession.

Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

There's that great Irish joke: a man is lost in the countryside, stops a passer-by: 'how do I get to Dublin?'. The passer-by says 'well, I wouldn't start from here'. Rather than starting by talking in the abstract about materialism, dualism, 'material stuff' and things like that in regard to the mind, I would rather start from somewhere else.