Materialism Vs Spiritualism Quotes

#1. How tolerable misfortunes appear when they affect only other people! How strong the human body seems when it's another man's flesh that bleeds! How easy it is to look death in the face when it's another man's turn!

Irene Nemirovsky

#2. A person's mental activities are entirely due to the behavior of nerve cells, glial cells, and the atoms, ions, and molecules that make them up and influence them.

Francis Crick

#3. To the non-initiate, whose experience of sexuality and bodily pleasure may be distorted by negative cultural conditioning, the introduction of sexuality into a sacred context is often mistakenly misconstrued as the ordinary pursuit of sex for recreation.

Zeena Schreck

#4. If a man takes you to a restaurant of his choosing, don't compliment him. Rave about the quality of the food and he'll be thrilled, because he took you there.

Ilona Andrews

#5. Life is less a burden without an absolute quest for material possessions

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#6. Materialism means simply the denial that the moral order is eternal, and the cutting off of ultimate hopes; spiritualism means theaffirmation of an eternal moral order and the letting loose of hope.

William James

#7. The only way of rendering life endurable is to drink as much wine as one can come by.

James Branch Cabell

#8. I'd rather live on my own than live with a face that looks at me with the wrong eyes.

Jane Birkin

#9. I take a giant breath, roll my anger up into a red rubber ball, and mentally kick it out into space.

Gillian Flynn

#10. Modern materialists and religious extremists alike lack the spiritual animistic reverence for non-human beings that every culture once understood as a given.

Zeena Schreck

#11. 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

#12. A tin horn politician with the manner of a rural corn doctor and the mien of a ham actor

H.L. Mencken

#13. I am, indeed, an absolute materialist so far as actual belief goes; with not a shred of credence in any form of supernaturalism - religion, spiritualism, transcendentalism, metempsychosis, or immortality.

H.P. Lovecraft

#14. The left-hand path adept seeks to liberate him/herself from passive subjection to the illusory nature of Maya, thus freeing the consciousness from the binds of self-created delusion.

Zeena Schreck

#15. Materialist deny God because they can't smell a rose with a powerful telescope.

Adriano Bulla

#16. At the root of everything lay the passionate
desire of thinking people to find a simple, unifying norm for society like the law of gravity that Newton had found for nature.

James H. Billington

#17. You can never have too much money.

Jess C. Scott

#18. If there is a void in your life then you will never fill it with cash!

Stephen Richards

#19. I never work out. I think it is boring, so I run.

Izabella Scorupco

#20. Materialists deny God because they can't smell a rose with a telescope.

Adriano Bulla

#21. A fast car can make women 'like' a man; and a man 'like' women ... fast.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#22. Right now, with terrorism and poverty and Wall Street and Social Security having problems, nudity should not be the issue.

Robin Thicke

#23. Consciousness is endless, from one incarnation to the next. It simply will and does manifest in other places and times, regardless of what becomes of the human race.

Zeena Schreck

#24. Some pushers are way better than others.

Dick Trickle