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Tag Name "Materialism" (188)

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An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn't called a decade of greed.
Paul Samuelson
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Invisible harmony is better than visible.
Heraclitus
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What need had the businessman to scribble or philosophize when he dominated the imagination of his time and the frantic materialism that was his principle of existence had become the haunting central figure in contemporary life?
Alfred Kazin
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He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first stone upon the materialism of the economists.
Ludwig von Mises
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The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the same thing: the corruption of the soul.
Ben Nicholson
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The ontology of materialism rested upon the illusion that the kind of existence, the direct actuality of the world around us, can be extrapolated into the atomic range. This extrapolation is impossible, however.
Werner Heisenberg
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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have all one wants.
Blaise Pascal
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Only just now awakening after years of materialism, our soul is still infected with the despair born of unbelief, of lack of purpose and aim.
Wassily Kandinsky
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You have to decide to servant the gods of materialism all around us or the true and the living God.
Billy Graham
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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.
Robert Plant
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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.
Joseph Stalin
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As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.
Diane Frolov
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Australia's is a special kind of philistinism, an immovable materialism which puts art and ideas of any kind deliberately and firmly to one side to let the serious business of living proceed without distraction.
Robin Boyd
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All this talk about atheistic materialism and God-fearing American I think is beside the point it's a rather vapid form of religion.
Reinhold Niebuhr
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Materialism is a fruitless attempt to find meaning outside of God. When we try to find ultimate fulfillment in a person other than Christ or a place other than heaven, we become idolaters. According to Scripture, materialism is not only evil it is tragic and pathetic.
Randy Alcorn
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I question whether I want to be integrated into America as it stands now, with its complacency and materialism, its soullessness.
Paule Marshall
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Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
Janis Joplin
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What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.
Seneca the Younger
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Are you apathetic toward the saccharine goodness evangelized by sentimental, superstitious fanatics, but equally bored by the intellectuals who worship at the empty-headed shrine of scientific materialism?
Rob Brezsny
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The American dream was not, at least at the beginning, a rags-to-riches type of narrow materialism.
Charles A. Reich
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Buddhism has always been a religion for people who've worked their way through a cycle of materialism and still feel discontented and want more, or have questions that their state of prosperity is not answering.
Pankaj Mishra
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The man who pets a lion may tame it, but the man who coddles the body makes it ravenous.
John Climacus
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American life, in large cities, is a perpetual assault on the senses and the nerves it is out of asceticism, out of unworldliness, precisely, that we bear it.
Joseph McCarthy
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That feeling of freedom, open highways of possibilities, has kind of been lost to materialism and marketing.
Sheryl Crow
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