Materialism Philosophy Quotes

#1. The task of defending capitalism was still important to leave to the capitalists.

Rick Perlstein

#2. The real problems of our planet are not economic or technical, they are philosophical. The philosophy of unbridled materialism is being challenged by events.

E.F. Schumacher

#3. Keep your eyes on the prize and know that the trials are only for a while, so smile.

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#4. I've nothing against eye make-up and lipstick. But the fact is that we're actually living on a planet in space. For me that's an extraordinary thought. It's mind-boggling just to think about the existence of space at all. But there are girls who can't see the universe for eye liner.

Jostein Gaarder

#5. Rugby is a game for barbarians played by gentlemen. Football is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians.

Oscar Wilde

#6. ...every physicist knows that the laws of physics can be used to build a gun or a bicycle; physics does not dictate a specific use for its laws. To that extent, it should be obvious that the laws of physics are incomplete in predicting everything that occurs in nature
- from Moral Materialism

Ashish Dalela

#7. The back of Tess's head disappeared as she descended the stairs. 'You'll like him a lot more if you listen more to his actions than to his words.

Gina Holmes

#8. The question is the primary form of communication for little kids.

Jim Gaffigan

#9. History is not like some individual person, which uses men to achieve its ends. History is nothing but the actions of men in pursuit of their ends.

Karl Marx

#10. An idol is not necessarily something concrete, like a golden calf. It can also be something abstract, like matter. Is matter part of the created order? Sure it is. So the philosophy of materialism qualifies as an idol in the biblical sense.

Nancy Pearcey

#11. Money can enhance your life in many ways but it cannot purchase the essential things that make up a happy life.

D.S. Luca

#12. I am inclined to think that these muscles and bones of mine would have gone off long ago to Megara or Boeotia - by the dog they would, if they had been moved only by their own idea of what was best.
(tr Jowett)

Plato

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

Rupert Sheldrake

#14. This was what growing up was about: hide the corpse, don't bare your heart, do make assumptions about the motives of others. They're certainly doing all these things to you.

Abraham Verghese

#15. If you are not at peace with yourself then you cannot spread peace.

Tariq Ramadan

#16. My fundamental axiom of speculative philosophy is that materialism and spiritualism are opposite poles of the same absurdity-the absurdity of imagining that we know anything about either spirit or matter.

Thomas Huxley

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

Adam Sedgwick

#18. The less you need, the more you live

Benny Bellamacina

#19. Three things are needed
For humanity to co-exist:
Truth, peace and basic needs.
Everything else -
Is irrelevant.

Suzy Kassem

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

Arthur Schopenhauer

#21. How much does he lack himself who must have many things?

Sen No Rikyu

#22. Scientific materialism is neither an implication nor a presupposition of doing science. Rather it is a metaphysical and sometimes religious stance that some people have toward science.

Angus J.L. Menuge

#23. Science, its imperfections notwithstanding, is the sword in the stone that humanity finally pulled. The question it poses, of universal and orderly materialism, is the most important that can be asked in philosophy and religion.

Edward O. Wilson

#24. Sometimes you have to bring back only the steering wheel so the car owner will know that you're giving it all you have.

Mario Andretti

#25. There's a saying that you can't put a price on a human life, but that saying is a lie because we have. We have, and it's so much lower than you would think. Yes, human life has its price like anything else, and will continue to do so for as long as it doubles as a commodity.

Nenia Campbell

#26. The difference between Nazism and Communism is just the size of the leader's moustache.

Adriano Bulla

#27. Philosophy, that leaned on Heaven before,
Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more.

Alexander Pope

#28. Don't waste time trying to make him think that materialism is true! Make him think it is strong, or stark, or courageous - that it is the philosophy of the future.4 That's the sort of thing he cares about. The

C.S. Lewis