Top 250 Materialistic Quotes & Sayings

Man is the result of a purposeless and materialistic process that did not have him in mind. He was not planned.

The atheist worldview of life is a materialistic culture that frees humanity from superstition.

I don't think materialistic things are my priority.

A merely symbolic religion does not threaten the ruling regime of materialistic science.

Posterity will one day laugh at the foolishness of modern materialistic philosophers.

We are often told we are materialistic. It seems to me, we are not materialistic enough. We have a disrespect for materials. We use it quickly and carelessly. If were genuinely materialistic people, we would understand where materials come from and where they go to. But, at the moment, the entire global economy seems to be built on the model of digging things up from one hole in the ground on one side of the earth, transporting them around the world, using them for a few days, and sticking them in a hole in the ground on the other side of the world.

It is our homes and families that need reforming in this increasingly materialistic and secular world.

That materialistic life, that's not my god.

I know I've been lucky, but I'm not very materialistic - I don't believe in collecting many unnecessary things and I'm not into girlie shopping.

What's really baffling to me is the way that the technology has risen up to help us become more materialistic.

The materialistic point of view in psychology can claim, at best, only the value of an heuristic hypothesis.

I'm really not a materialistic person.

Being someone who is of our sensual reality, Stephen Strange has a lifestyle, he has a sexuality, he's materialistic.

The adornment of the body is a human need. I don't see anything superficial about it unless your life becomes very materialistic.

Materialistic progress alone does not guarantee national security. What is essential is the character and integrity of the country's citizens.

The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.

I'm not very materialistic - I don't have a whole lot of stuff. But I do always like a pair of really weird socks.

There's good stuff going on in modern pop music, but a lot of it is really materialistic and only about money.

Further, for once, I like the idea that people who think I'm a constant voice for the furthering of the imagination have to see that interest in a more materialistic fashion.

I'm not materialistic. I love clothes and all that stuff, but I don't need it to live.

As human beings, we're very materialistic and have all this stuff - furs and cars and diamonds and money.

Linux has definitely made a lot of sense even in a purely materialistic sense.

I'm not a very materialistic person.

The materialistic pattern of life is that where money predominates over everything. The non-materialistic life is that where money is just a means - happiness predominates, joy predominates; your own individuality predominates. You know who you are and where you are going, and you are not distracted. Then suddenly you will see your life has a meditative quality to it.

I'm not a materialistic person.

A materialistic world will not be won to Christ by a materialistic church.

The time has come to realize that supersensible knowledge has now to arise from the materialistic grave.

If materialistic knowledge is power, it is not wisdom. It is but a blind force.

... the great artists ... do not want security, egoistic or materialistic.

The materialistic paradigm of Western science has been a major obstacle for any objective evaluation of the data describing the events occurring at the time of death.

If you are really a product of a materialistic universe, how is it that you don't feel at home there?

I am simple and an open book. I don't like ambitious and materialistic people.

The world is facing a historic turning point because the system of materialistic liberalism has come to a deadlock.

I'm not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does.

Tahiti is now completely occupied by materialistic ideas and I think it is wrong.

As a basketball fan, I get sick and tired of people talking about numbers. To me, the world is getting too materialistic.

I ask you to write this deeply into your souls . . . the materialistic culture . . . is now on the way to its close.

The great question of our time is, 'Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?'

When we analyze this war in a materialistic way and ask when is it going to end and who will be the winner and the loser, it means that we do not see the endgame.

The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication.

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.

As long as our consciousness is materialistic, there is no room for joy. However on the spiritual platform three things automatically happen: eternity, knowledge and bliss.

According to materialistic science, any memory requires a material substrate, such as the neuronal network in the brain or the DNA molecules of the genes.

We have a largely materialistic lifestyle characterized by a materialistic culture. However, this only provides us with temporary, sensory satisfaction, whereas long-term satisfaction is based not on the senses but on the mind. That’s where real tranquility is to be found. And peace of mind turns out to be a significant factor in our physical health too.

Of course, a culture as manically and massively materialistic as ours creates materialistic behavior in its people, especially in those people who've been subjected to nothing but the destruction of imagination that this culture calls education, the destruction of autonomy it calls work, and the destruction of activity it calls entertainment.

The strongest argument for the un-materialistic character of American life is the fact that we tolerate conditions that are, from a materialistic point of view, intolerable. ... No nation with any sense of material well-being would endure the food we eat, the cramped apartments we live in, the noise, the traffic, the crowded subways and buses. American life, in large cities, at any rate, is a perpetual assault on the senses and the nerves.

Today, society is sacrificing love, values and dharma in its pursuit of materialistic gains.

In our present age, while materialistic pursuits are important, the gentler aspects of life are being overlooked.

Our enemies believed America was weak and materialistic, that we would splinter in fear and selfishness. They were as wrong as they are evil.

Materialistic I'm narcissistic My shoe game is mean It's so sadistic

I'm not that materialistic. I like nice clothes and that, but I don't spend lots of money on stuff. I'm not really into TV, I don't have an iPod, I've got a gramophone.

Popular culture is morally bankrupt, flagrantly licentious and utterly materialistic-and Madonna is the worst of all.

That is the job of the Catholic Church, to be a balance to the materialistic drives of our culture and of economy.

Fashion isn't me, even though I work in it. It's just materialistic stuff.

To achieve any change in the minds of the youth, there must be reorientation in terms of materialistic tendencies, corruption and crime generally.

The strongest argument for the un-materialistic character of American life is that we tolerate conditions that are, from a materialistic point of view, intolerable.

I don't believe in materialistic gifts and grand gestures.

The life sciences contain spiritual values which can never be explained by the materialistic attitude of present day science

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

In a world where we are so pragmatic and materialistic, fear is the only emotion that allows even a sophisticated person to believe in something beyond.