Top 1200 Materialistic World Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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.

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.

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

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.

In the past things were either in your head (subjective, imaginary, fantasy) or else they were part of the outside world - cold, hard, concrete materialistic reality. If you want to look at it in terms of poetry, there was surrealism and objectivism. Now there's the veil of the virtual in between. The old opposition between inner and outer doesn't quite capture it, especially as it contains elements of both. It's real but not concrete.

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

I share the belief of many of my contemporaries that the spiritual crisis pervading all spheres of Western industrial society can be remedied only by a change in our world view. We shall have to shift from the materialistic, dualistic belief that people and their environment are separate, toward a new consciousness of an all-encompassing reality, which embraces the experiencing ego, a reality in which people feel their oneness with animate nature and all of creation.

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

The fact remains that the materialistic view is a truncated view of reality.

The entire money structure and materialistic society is a false society.

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

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

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

Talking about a materialistic thing, I get about 13 times more royalties from Europe than I do from America.

Sometimes you're not blessed with the materialistic stuff but you're blessed with a work ethic.

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.

The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word "luxury.

I want to feel happy doing a good film and don't want to look at cinema with a materialistic yardstick.

The standard entertainment industry reaction to Hollywood's box office slump reveals the same shallow, materialistic mindset that helped create the problem in the first place.

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.

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.

Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity.

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

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

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

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

It is in a way a mystery that, instead of demanding that their governments give primary attention to their own needs and aspirations, most of the citizens of big counties-those, that is, that have the status of being "powers" in the world-far from being self-centered or materialistic as they are commonly credited with being, the ordinary citizen and his elected representative all too often turn out to be romantics, ready and eager to sacrifice programs of health, education and welfare for the power and pride of the nation.

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

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

I'm not a materialistic person at all, but I always want the next thing; I've got a nice toolbox, but I still want another set of spanners.

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

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

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.

The psychological consequences of this spread of white culture have been out of all proportion to the materialistic. This world-wide cultural diffusion has protected us as man had never been protected before from having to take seriously the civilizations of other peoples; it has given to our culture a massive universality that we have long ceased to account for historically, and which we read off rather as necessary and inevitable.

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.

Because the existing education system is oriented towards materialistic goals we need to pay special attention to inner values such as tolerance, forgiveness, love and compassion.

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.

If I'm a lush at anything, it's food and drink. I'm not materialistic in any way, but I value food.

A purely materialistic art would be like a tree which is expected to bear fruit without flowering and to sacrifice grace and beauty for mere utility

The age is materialistic. Verse isn't. I must be with the age, so I am writing prose.

The more materialistic science becomes, the more angels shall I paint. Their wings are my protest in favor of the immortality of the soul.

I'm not a materialistic person, to be honest. I'm all about the energy, man. I never had anything growing up, so I don't know what it means to lose anything.

The truth of faith about creation is radically opposed to the theories of materialistic philosophy. These view the cosmos as the result of an evolution of matter reducible to pure chance and necessity.

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

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

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

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

You know when you eat too many sweets and get diabetes? Paparazzi are the diabetes of materialistic culture.

... it is a welcome symptom in an age which is commonly denounced as materialistic, that it makes heroes of men whose goals lie wholly in the intellectual and moral sphere.

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

You realize just by writing down everything you own that it's just materialistic stuff. We are much more than that.

Weak and oppressed nations are fundamentally spiritual; strong nations are, as a rule, chiefly materialistic.

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.

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

Love is not materialistic. It's intangible yet somehow an undeniable feeling. You know it when you have it. I have lots of love in my life and I am blessed.

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

We all have the potential to show others love and affection, but as we progress in our materialistic world, these values tend to remain dormant. We can develop them on the basis of common sense, common experience and scientific findings. The response to the recent tragedy in the Philippines is an example of how such values are awakened; people helped simply because others are suffering and in need of support.

There are many beliefs that we have seen as truth in Western civilization for hundreds of years. We live according to these "truths" and as a result manifesting a life using those beliefs, which can be very self-destructive. So these beliefs will affect decisions in economics and politics and everything else that we do. One myth-perception is our continued emphasis of a Newtonian materialistic world, which by definition emphasizes the primacy of matter and somewhat ignores or minimizes the influence of the immaterial part of the universe.

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

When an American heiress wants to buy a man, she at once crosses the Atlantic. The only really materialistic people I have ever met have been Europeans.