Top Materialism Quotes

[Letter to his wife, Natalia Sedova]In addition to the happiness of being a fighter for the cause of socialism, fate gave me the happiness of being her husband. During the almost forty years of our li...

Science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came into being and never will end. The human being is no excepti...

Materialism Definition

(n.) The doctrine of materialists; materialistic views and tenets.

(n.) The tendency to give undue importance to material interests; devotion to the material nature and its wants.

(n.) Material substances in the aggregate; matter.

It is good to stay in a peaceful poverty than to stay in a painful wealth.

Many a woman would not be in a relationship with or married to her man, if he earned half of what he earns; and many a man would not be in a relationship with or married to his woman, if he earned twi...

It has always been dangerous to institutionalize hope, and we no longer live in a society in which we will be allowed to institutionalize memory.

If there were something that Mother Nature or God could do with money, She or He would have sold immortality to the rich a long time ago.

...in principle, one can predict everything in the universe solely from physical laws. Thus, the long-standing 'first cause' problem intrinsic in cosmology has been finally dispelled.

The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.

The second most dangerous thing about money is that it leaves most of the people who have a lot of it with the unshakable belief that they are intelligent and well informed. The most dangerous thing a...

Nothing in the tangible word that isn't living has any value beyond a dollar amount. Considering that dollars can only buy more tangible and inanimate objects, it would seem a far more worthwhile goal...

Being self-owned is a state of mind.

Time after time have nations, ay, and rich and strong nations, learned in the arts, been, and passed away to be forgotten, so that no memory of them remains. This is but one of several; for Time eats...

If there is a void in your life then you will never fill it with cash!

Many a woman is in a relationship with or married to her man not because she loves him but only because she likes men like him.

If everything must have a cause, of course, this also applies to God; if God can exist in isolation, then why not the universe?

Most people do not want much. All they want is to be envied by most people.

When once we quit the basis of sensation, all is in the wind. To talk of existences is to talk of . To say that the human soul, angels, god, are immaterial, is to say they are , or that there is no g...

Experience and wisdom are more tangible than materialism.

I need anything, anything that will stop me from living in the kind of death the bourgeois eat, the death called comfort.

[A]nd you may know how little God thinks of money by observing on what bad and contemptible characters he often bestow