Materialism Quotes

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...

Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need.

The things you own end up owning you. It's only after you lose everything that you're free to do any...

The Master said, “If your conduct is determined solely by considerations of profit you will arouse g...

The Master said, “A true gentleman is one who has set his heart upon the Way. A fellow who is ashame...

you turn into a shrewd tactician, making a series of cautious semicommitments without really surrend...

I knew how one climbing the mountain of worldly success can slip down into the river below without b...

Earthly goods deceive the human heart into believing that they give it security and freedom from wor...

We believed in another world, but we admitted the feebleness of our senses. Then came 'enlightenment...

I was lucky to live in New York when it was dangerous and edgy and cheap enough to play host to youn...

String theory is an attempt at a deeper description of nature by thinking of an elementary particle ...

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that...

The real opposition is that between the ego-bound man, whose existence is structured by the principl...

We do not belong to this material world that science constructs for us. We are not in it; we are out...

The problem of architecture as I see it is the problem of all art – the elimination of the human ele...

Civilization is in fact the longest story of all. Civilization can persist through a series of econo...

Money is a great servant but a bad master.

Money is a great servant but a bad master.

Money is a great servant but a bad master.

Money is a great servant but a bad master.

Two ideas are opposed — not concepts or abstractions, but Ideas which were in the blood of men befor...

According to the materialist conception of history, the ultimately determining element in history is...

There are many good inventions on earth, some useful, some pleasing: for their sake, the earth is to...

The materialists, or some of them, would have us believe that the brain produces thoughts as an orga...

Associated with this inner conflict is a tendency to become hypercritical: unhappy souls almost alwa...

Old-fashioned people think you can have a soul without money. They think the less money you have, th...

We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different becaus...

It had never occurred to him that he should live in any other than what he would have called an ordi...

In poor Rosamond’s mind there was not room enough for luxuries to look small in.

I’ve always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you.

Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity.

Mrs. Bulstrode's naïve way of conciliating piety and worldliness, the nothingness of this life and d...

When one thinks of all the people who support or have supported Fascism, one stands amazed at their ...

My method is atheism. I find the atheistic outlook provides a favourable background for cosmopolitan...

Did you find anything special?' Blackie asked.T. nodded. 'Come over here,' he said, 'and look.' Out ...

When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.

I am, indeed, an absolute materialist so far as actual belief goes; with not a shred of credence in ...

And what, O Queen, are those things that are dear to a man? Are they not bubbles? Is not ambition bu...

Time after time have nations, ay, and rich and strong nations, learned in the arts, been, and passed...

I know perfectly well that it is impossible, according to arithmetic and scholarly books, to live in...

It has always been dangerous to institutionalize hope, and we no longer live in a society in which w...

No doubt you can get more in your market for a quart of milk than for a quart of blood, but that is ...

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whe...

There are some who complain most energetically and inconsolably of any, because they are, as they sa...

The marriage of reason and nightmare that dominated the 20th century has given birth to an ever more...

Yes, I'm a materialist. I'm willing to be shown wrong, but that has not happened — yet. And I admit ...

A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper. Those who can barely ...

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz?

There are at least two ways to believe in the idea of quality. You can believe there's something ine...

We never know how strongly we cling to objects until they are taken away, and he who thinks htat he ...

The Must be worthless by our estimation or keep us enslaved by an intemperate love of it.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing ...

I am wired by nature to love the same toys that the world loves. I start to fit in. I start to love ...

I am wired by nature to love the same toys that the world loves. I start to fit in. I start to love ...

I am wired by nature to love the same toys that the world loves. I start to fit in. I start to love ...

I am wired by nature to love the same toys that the world loves. I start to fit in. I start to love ...

Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.

A strange species we are, We can stand anything God and nature can throw at us save only plenty. If ...

They might have you, and they pay badly enough to guarantee you decent company.

On observing 1963 America for the first time, the author says that organization and standardization ...

In the social production which men carry on they enter into definite relations that are indispensabl...

Hitherto men have always formed wrong ideas about themselves, about what they are and what they ough...

The sum of productive forces, capital funds and social forms of intercourse, which every individual ...

The mystery of this courage of Bauer’s is Hegel’s Phenomenology. As Hegel here puts self-consciousne...

Makers?" said Toby. Jaysir nodded."We're not loners, you know. There just weren't any on Wallop. We ...

On this rock we had built our church. We had founded our idealism on the most nihilistic implication...

Detective-story writers give this thrill by exploiting the resources of the possible; however improb...

It's as if I had been going downhill when I thought I was going uphill. That's how it was. In societ...

[Letter to his wife, Natalia Sedova]In addition to the happiness of being a fighter for the cause of...

One late winter afternoon in Oxford Street, amid the noise of vehicles and voices that filled that d...

The only time you look in your neighbor's bowl is to make sure that they have enough. You don't look...

The only time you look in your neighbor's bowl is to make sure that they have enough. You don't look...

The only time you look in your neighbor's bowl is to make sure that they have enough. You don't look...

The only time you look in your neighbor's bowl is to make sure that they have enough. You don't look...

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...