Top Materialism Quotes

Billions of years before twelve step groups, God committed shotgun suicide. Today wall scrapings share His gratitude stories.

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...

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.

I believe that secularism is not the enemy of spirituality. Our spirits are in fact secular and free. But the enemy of your spirit is materialism which produces legalism. People scramble for the "perf...

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

The only real reason that some relationships and marriages have not yet been ended is because in each case one of the partners has not yet found their ideal partner or someone they love or at least li...

I constantly pack my pockets full of worthless trinkets, and in such misguided gorging I leave my heart empty and my soul emaciated because I have forgotten everything but trinkets.

The wisdom of nature continues to teach humanity that the material...is immaterial.

I do not think anyone can read the letters which passed between Clarke and [Anthony] Collins without admitting that Collins, who writes with wonderful Power and closeness of reasoning, has by far the...

It is not to be understood that I am with him [Jesus] in all his doctrines. I am a Materialist, he takes the side of spiritualism; he preaches the efficacy of repentance toward forgiveness of sin. I r...

Logically, this kind of atheism did not prove that there was no God.... On the contrary, Southwell was typical in placing the onus probandi on those who affirmed the existence of God and Holyoake rega...

Virtues are worth more than the material things.

How good something is should never be determined by its cost, designer, origin, or its perceived value by others.

Are the things you are living for worth Christ dying for?

The difference between Nazism and Communism is just the size of the leader's moustache.

Life punishes those who have things in abundance by making them worry about petty things like: what to wear, or, which car to drive.

My claim here is not merely that I am a materialist through and through, and that the subversive kernel of Christianity is accessible also to a materialist approach; my thesis is much stronger: this k...

It is in the best interest of the rich to preserve poverty.

Don't envy what people have, emulate what they did to have it.

I have a firm belief in such things as, you know, the water, the Earth, the trees and sky. And I'm wondering, it is increasingly difficult to find those elements in nature, because it's nature I belie...