Top 322 Materialism Quotes & Sayings

In age of consumerism and materialism, I traffic in blue sky and colored air.

Materialism is the consciousness of wanting to exploit and enjoy.

Capitalism is always in danger of inspiring men to be more concerned about making a living than making a life. We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles, rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to humanity-thus capitalism can lead to a practical materialism that is as pernicious as the materialism taught by communism.

Naturalism and materialism mean essentially the same thing.

We must get out of materialism.

You don't have to be a Christian to recognize that materialism does not match reality. Materialism is not true to universal human experience - what we all know about ourselves.

Materialism is the philosophy of the subject who forgets to take account of himself.

If we understand the dangers of materialism, it will help liberate us to experience the joys of Christ-centered stewardship. Jesus speaks of the "deceitfulness of wealth" . The psalmist warns, "Though your riches increase, do not set your heart on them" . The dangers of materialism are far-reaching. We should not think that we're immune to the value-changing nature of wealth.

American business needs a lifting purpose greater than the struggle of materialism.

There is only one reason an intelligent person doesn't believe in miracles. He or she believes in materialism.

Charity is great, but the moment you say it is all, you run the risk of running into materialism.

It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from life. Our objection to scepticism is that it removes the motive power. Materialism is not a thing which destroys mere restraint. Materialism itself is the great restraint.

Socialism, hypnotism, patriotism, materialism, fools making laws for the breaking of jaws.

Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over.

Possibly the words materialism and spirituality express two sides of one and the same fact.

Sex is the mysticism of materialism.

If capitalism begins as the practical idealism of the aspiring bourgeoisie, it ends ... as an orgy of materialism.

America has abandoned the strong woman of spirituality and is shacking up with the harlot of materialism.

The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.

Evolutionists ... have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door.

We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.

The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism.

Materialism is a fruitless attempt to find meaning outside of God. When we try to find ultimate fulfillment in a person other than Christ or a place other than heaven, we become idolaters. According to Scripture, materialism is not only evil; it is tragic and pathetic.

The moral peril to humanity of thoughtlessly accepting these conveniences [of materialism] (with their inherent disadvantages) as constituting a philosophy of life is now becoming apparent. For the implications of this disruptive materialism... are that human beings are nothing but bodies, animals, machines.

The only antidote to materialism is giving, because materialism's all about getting. Every time I give, my heart grows bigger. Every time I give, I become more like Jesus.

Striving for longevity through versatility facilitates what we might call an ecological or true materialism. ... we are not truly materialist because we fail to invest deep or sacred meanings in material goods. Instead, our materialism connotes an unbounded desire to acquire followed by a throwaway mentality. True materialism could become part of a new ecological consciousness.

Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.

The rejection of all abstract formalism. Materialism reminds every science of its real source: the world men transform. No science can, whether in its history or its object, grasp its own origins within itself or constitute itself as a closed world, exhaustively defined by internal rules. Materialism refers every science and every activity to the reality they depend on, even if this dependence is masked by a great many abstract mediations: mathematics as well as logic, aesthetics as well as ethics and politics.

I was lucky enough to have had great success early on in life; to have had all the things the material world can offer. And yet, I realized that what I had actually neglected was the more spiritual side of myself, which has always been there. But it's easy for us in our culture to become consumed in a sense by materialism. Now materialism is fine. We live in a material world. I'm not saying that beautiful things don't enhance our lives. But, in our culture, we're never happy.

In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.

Materialism is an identity crisis.

Let there be as little materialism as possible, with the maximum of spirituality.

The American dream was not, at least at the beginning, a rags-to-riches type of narrow materialism.

Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss.

Materialism isn't the panacea that so many people think it is.

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.

Materialism is toxic to happiness, and we are losing our connection to the natural world.

You have to decide to servant the gods of materialism all around us or the true and the living God.

If we do want to do that [ colonise space to survive, ], then vacuous materialism is not going to be enough for us.

We need to move away from crass, consumption-driven materialism by de-materialising status

That feeling of freedom, open highways of possibilities, has kind of been lost to materialism and marketing.

What is necessary to keep providing good care to nature has completely fallen into ignorance during the materialism era.

Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical.

Materialism and all its miseries can never be conquered by materialism.

You're a materialist, like all ignorant people. But your materialism doesn't make materialism true. Don't you know that? In the final summing up, it is spirit and dream, thought and love and act that matter.

What is the idea of God in heaven? Materialism. The Vedantic idea is the infinite principle of God embodied in every one of us. God sitting up on a cloud! Think of the utter blasphemy of it! It is materialism - downright materialism. When babies think this way, it may be all right, but when grown - up men try to teach such things, it is downright disgusting - that is what it is. It is all matter, all body idea, the gross idea, the sense idea. Every bit of it is clay and nothing but clay. Is that religion?

To believe that mind is all, that thought is all is only a higher materialism.

Solitude is a way to defend the spirit against the murderous din of our materialism.

Materialism, which gives priority to material needs and objects, is obviously the opposite of spirituality

While I've always been critical about this peddling of spiritual materialism, it wasn't until I went to Nepal that I came face-to-face with my own spiritual materialism. The thing is, Kathmandu is noisy, and dusty, and crowded, and everywhere you go you see these same Western yoga teachers, hashish-smoking backpackers, and fair-trade shop owners, all seeking the stalls filled with amazing Buddha statues, hand carved mirrors, beautiful yak scarves, and thangka paintings. And everyone is buying stuff!

Solipsism may be logically consistent with present Quantum Mechanics, Monism in the sense of Materialism is not.

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

Like Gandhi, my husband had struggled with the issue of materialism.

Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.

I question whether I want to be integrated into America as it stands now, with its complacency and materialism, its soullessness.

Our world, so we see and hear on all sides, is drowning in materialism, commercialism, consumerism. But the problem is not really there. What we ordinarily speak of as materialism is a result, not a cause. The root of materialism is a poverty of ideas about the inner and the outer world. Less and less does our contemporary culture have, or even seek, commerce with great ideas, and it is that lack that is weakening the human spirit. This is the essence of materialism. Materialism is a disease of the mind starved for ideas.

Spirituality brings a class of men who lay exclusive claim to the special powers of the world. The immediate effect of this is a reaction towards materialism, which opens the door to scores of exclusive claims, until the time comes when not only all the spiritual powers of the race, but all its material powers and privileges are centred in the hands of a very few; and these few, standing on the necks of the masses of the people, want to rule them. Then society has to help itself, and materialism comes to the rescue.

Our God is a consuming fire. He consumes pride, lust, materialism, and other sin.

Are you winning the battle against materialism?

There will be a change in worldview from materialism and failure to conscious evolution. And everyone's potential to participate!