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Tag Name "Materialism" (188)

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When we try in good faith to believe in materialism, in the exclusive reality of the physical, we are asking our selves to step aside we are disavowing the very realm where we exist and where all things precious are kept - the realm of emotion and conscience, of memory and intention and sensation.
John Updike
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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.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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America has abandoned the strong woman of spirituality and is shacking up with the harlot of materialism.
Joseph Losey
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I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.
Henry Miller
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No social system will bring us happiness, health and prosperity unless it is inspired by something greater than materialism.
Clement Attlee
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We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.
Erich Fromm
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American business needs a lifting purpose greater than the struggle of materialism.
Herbert Hoover
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I certainly understand that we're all trying to make a living, but I'm not thinking about that when I'm making it. And if that's your sole motivation, it's going to reflect that narcissistic greed and you're going to hear it in the music.
Aimee Mann
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Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss.
Douglas Horton
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There is one advantage to having nothing, it never needs repair.
Frank A. Clark
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We have to shift our emphasis from economic efficiency and materialism towards a sustainable quality of life and to healing of our society, of our people and our ecological systems.
Janet Holmes a Court
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Possession of material riches, without inner peace, is like dying of thirst while bathing in a lake. If material poverty is to be avoided, spiritual poverty is to be abhorred. For it is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering.
Paramahansa Yogananda
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Charity is great, but the moment you say it is all, you run the risk of running into materialism.
Swami Vivekananda
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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.
Pope John Paul II
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Once you abstract from this, once you generalize and postulate Universals, you have departed from the creative reality, and entered the realm of static fixity, mechanism, materialism.
D. H. Lawrence
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Materialism is the consciousness of wanting to exploit and enjoy.
Radhanath Swami
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The most consistent versions of materialism deny the reality of anything beyond matter - no soul, no spirit, no will, no mind. This is called reductionism: Humans are reduced to biochemical machines.
Nancy Pearcey
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Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
John Maynard Keynes
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The materialistic idealism that governs American life, that on the one hand makes a chariot of every grocery wagon, and on the other a mere hitching post of every star, lets every man lead a very enticing double life.
Louis Kronenberger
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It is worth remembering (though there is nothing that we can do about it) that the world as it really is may easily be a far nastier place than it would be if scientific materialism were the whole truth and nothing but the truth about it.
C. D. Broad
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