Quotes with materialism

  • A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.

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  • Adam Sedgwick A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.
    Adam Sedgwick
     
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  • Arthur Erickson After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • C. S. Lewis As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to talk of any final victory over materialism.
    Source: The Weight of Glory (1949)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Bill Rancic Each time you go to the grocery store with your kids, it is a potential learning opportunity. In order not to overemphasize materialism, focus on other things to do with money. In 'Beyond the Lemonade Stand,' I try to emphasize the importance of saving money, and of using it to help other people.
    Bill Rancic
    American entrepreneur (1971 - )
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  • Billy Graham It's no secret that in New York during the last 30 years there has been a tragic exodus from the churches into materialism, secularism and humanism.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Arthur Erickson Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Brooks Atkinson Materialism is decadent and degenerate only if the spirit of the nation has withered and if individual people are so unimaginative that they wallow in it.
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • Doug Horton Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss.
    Doug Horton
    American Protestant clergyman
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  • E. M. Forster Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still entangled with the desire for ownership.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Malcolm Muggeridge Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
    Malcolm Muggeridge
    British Broadcaster (1903 - 1990)
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  • Bryant H. McGill The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Malcolm Muggeridge The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex, alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of deliverance.
    Malcolm Muggeridge
    British Broadcaster (1903 - 1990)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman The open frontier, the hardships of homesteading from scratch, the wealth of natural resources, the whole vast challenge of a continent waiting to be exploited, combined to produce a prevailing materialism and an American drive bent as much, if not more, on money, property, and power than was true of the Old World from which we had fled.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Arthur Erickson This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the world.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • John Updike 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
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • E. F. Schumacher An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.
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