Materialism Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Materialism.
Top Quotes
“Worldliness”
“Selfishness”
“Consumerism”
“Spirituality”
“Historical materialism”
“He was troubled by materialism.”
“The modern materialists are not permitted to doubt; they are forbidden to believe.”
“For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?”
“Wikipedia: Materialism”
“Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.”
“It is difficult to renounce the feeling of ownership; it is like wise difficult to overcome babbling.”
“Physicalism, Stanford Encyclopedia”
“Materialism ends up denying the existence of any irreducible subjective qualitative states of sentience or awareness.”
“Dualism makes the problem insoluble; materialism denies the existence of any phenomenon to study, and hence of any problem.”
“Greed is a sin against God, just as all mortal sins, in as much as man condemns things eternal for the sake of temporal things”
“Individually, people are finding that a simpler lifestyle provides greater satisfaction than relentless pursuit of materialism.”
“Eliminative Materialism, Stanford Encyclopedia”
“Materialism is the recognition of "objects in themselves", or outside the mind; ideas and sensations are copies of images of those objects.”
“The natural scientist must be a modern materialist, a conscious adherent of the materialism represented by Marx, i.e., he must be a dialectical materialist.”