Top 1200 Materialistic Things Quotes & Sayings

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

All the materialistic things I have been able to have over the last number of years are slowly being taken away from me. It's been really challenging but also it's been encouraging to myself to see what my God is actually doing.

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 very materialistic person.

Before the scientific rationalism took hold of our minds and before we became succumbed to a materialistic worldview, the Western philosophy was holistic and relational, and even now there are many scientists in the West seeing things totally interconnected.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Yes, of course [this age] is materialistic, but the only way to counteract it is to create spiritual things. Don't worry yourself about the materialism too much. Create and stir other people to create!

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

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

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

My heart is in helping people and in the less materialistic side of things, but there's the side of me that's more polished.

I've lived a lot in communist countries and they're intensely interested in money. I think they are more interested in money than capitalists are. They're the most materialistic people in the world. What they're actually living for is material things. The irony of that is that in communist countries there isn't anything to buy.

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

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.

On the other side, is a substantial, more materialism, everything is real long to the extent we can see or measure it, and things are as real as I think they. That's way too materialistic or substantialist, because things are not really what they seem to be.

I don't want to be too strict, because I think kids can get rebellious, but I want to raise my daughter to be passionate about doing good things and pursuing real things and hobbies instead of frivolous materialistic stuff.

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.

Females in our generation morals are just out the window. Materialistic things aren't life. I'd rather walk in the rain with a man who treats me like a queen than to ride in a Benz with a man who treats me like crap.

I think I'm actually quite a materialistic person, I value what it takes to make a car or build a nice house. Money does change things, but how it changes people depends on how they react to it.

I take things like honor and loyalty seriously. It's more important to me than any materialistic thing or any fame I could have.

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

I know it sounds old-fashioned to say we're too materialistic in the West, but happiness does not derive exclusively from things, and yet we seem to be structuring our whole society around things. I think that's partially why Westerners are joining ISIS and going to Syria. We have lost our way in the West in holding up a vision for humanity that is not exclusively shaped by materialism.

Jobs has within him sort of this conflict, but he doesn't quite see it as a conflict between being hippie-ish and anti-materialistic but wanting to sell things like Wozniak's board. Wanting to create a business.

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

I'm really not a materialistic person.

Naturally I never had the intention to offend or alienate Slavs. ... What makes me different from the 'nazis' are basically three things; unlike them I am not socialistic (not even on a national level), I am not materialistic and I believe in (the ancient Scandinavian!) democracy.

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

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

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

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

The character is everything that I felt really strongly against - she's superficial, materialistic, vain, amoral. She's all of these things, and I realised that I really hated her. How do you play someone that you hate? But I found it really interesting and it gave me a whole new insight into what my job, or my role as an actress, could be.

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

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

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

I don't think materialistic things are my priority.

We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don't satisfy us. The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted.

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.

That materialistic life, that's not my god.

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

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

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.

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

The last time I saw my mom was in 1997. My mom started getting sick, and my mom finally passed away in 2002. My mom was my world. My mom was everything to me. We didn't have money. We didn't have a whole lot of materialistic things, but one thing I can truly say, that my mother loved me and all of her children unconditionally.

When you think of things that influenced your life, Mother Goose influenced more people than almost any other thing, the rhythms of those poems. Everything after that was a bare imitation of some of those mysterious and materialistic poems.

I'm not a materialistic person.

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

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.

Cars and cameras are the two things I let myself be materialistic about. I don't care about other stuff.

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

Athens built the Acropolis. Corinth was a commercial city, interested in purely materialistic things. Today we admire Athens, visit it, preserve the old temples, yet we hardly ever set foot in Corinth.

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