Materially Quotes

#1. We are accustomed to say, that the mass of men are unprepared; but improvement is slow, because the few are not materially wiser or better than the many.

Henry David Thoreau

#2. Even those who are materially poor have something to offer, and in doing so, open themselves up to the circular energy of generosity and abundance.

Stephen Richards

#3. A country that has few museums is both materially poor and spiritually poor ... Museums, like theaters and libraries, are a means to freedom.

Wendy Beckett

#4. The opinion of the great body of the reading public is very materially influenced even by the unsupported assertions of those who assume a right to criticize.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#5. The yoga tradition asserts that lasting happiness is dependent on prospering both materially and spiritually.

Rod Stryker

#6. Those who are materially poor, hungry, and grieving are called "blessed" by Jesus, because wealth, satisfactions, and pleasures do not blind them to their need for God's Kingdom ... Their misery helps them to cry out to God and to trust in Him since everything else has failed them.

Roch A. Kereszty

#7. Given that a significant percentage of children suffer from attention deficit problems in today's world, especially in more materially affluent societies, I am told that substantial efforts are being made to understand the faculty of attention and its causal dynamics.

Dalai Lama XIV

#8. Is there some risk every day we walk out our front door? Every time we get in our car? Yeah. Are we materially less safe now than we were 10 years ago? Whatever delta there is, it's very small.

John Hickenlooper

#9. [ ... ]How can a great civilization have destroyed itself so completely?"
"Perhaps,"said Apollo, "by being materially great and materially wise and nothing else.

Walter M. Miller Jr.

#10. Unsoundness in a slave, as well as in a horse, detracts materially from his value. If no warranty is given, a close examination is a matter of particular importance to the Negro jockey.

Solomon Northup

#11. Not only are mortals rotten, the very atmosphere in which we live is materially and physically rotten, swarming with maggots, with obscene appearances, poisonous minds, and foul organisms.

Antonin Artaud

#12. The power-loving temperament is more dangerous when it either prefers or is forced to operate in what is materially a void. Wehave everything to dread from the dispossessed.

Elizabeth Bowen

#13. Materially we must strive to secure a broader economic opportunity for all men, so that each shall have a better chance to show the stuff of which he is made.

Theodore Roosevelt

#14. My problem was not with comfort or monetary wealth. My problem was with a way of life in which those who have more than they need are envied or extolled, while those who are materially poor are scorned or forgotten.

John Robbins

#15. American culture enforces such rigid gender roles for male friendships that they are gay unless they materially resemble a beer commercial.

Thomm Quackenbush

#16. As women demanded access to power, the power structure used the beauty myth materially to undermine women's advancement.

Naomi Wolf

#17. Our people can draw on the tremendous strides made in recent years, not only in terms of advancing themselves spiritually and materially, but also in having weathered social and economic turbulence, triggered, in the main, by factors not of their own creation.

Denzil Douglas

#18. In the past, I thought I should put serious effort into being less materially attached, to train myself to like expensive things less. Now it was happening organically and almost violently, with full conviction.

Charlotte Shane

#19. Soviet people are better off materially and richer spiritually.

Leonid Brezhnev

#20. I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux.

Zebulon Pike

#21. Was he demanding? Hell yes, but he wasn't selfish. He took. He was ruthless in his demands. But he gave her back so much. Not just materially but emotionally, though he'd likely deny he did any such thing.

Maya Banks

#22. I believe that proper eating will help all sorts of diseases. I can't say it will cure, but I can say it will materially help.

David H. Murdock

#23. Throughout history, it took centuries for the habits of one culture to materially affect another. Now, that which becomes popular in one country can sweep through others within months.

Dee Hock

#24. Classifying the stars has helped materially in all studies of the structure of the universe.

Annie Jump Cannon

#25. The disastrous feature of our civilization is that it is far more developed materially than spiritually. Its balance is disturbed.

Albert Schweitzer

#26. A spiritually established life is not an easy task. But a materially satisfied life is an impossible task.

Sri Chinmoy

#27. This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.

John F. Kennedy

#28. A tough but nervous, tenacious but restless race [the Yankees]; materially ambitious, yet prone to introspection, and subject to waves of religious emotion ... A race whose typical member is eternally torn between a passion for righteousness and a desire to get on in the world.

Samuel Eliot Morison

#29. Inner peace is the key: if you have inner peace, the external problems do not affect your deep sense of peace and tranquility ... without this inner peace, no matter how comfortable your life is materially, you may still be worried, disturbed, or unhappy because of circumstances.

Dalai Lama XIV

#30. I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.

Hakeem Olajuwon

#31. On the one hand poetry is useless. It can't change the world materially. On the other hand it is a basic part of human existence. It came into the world when humans did. It's what makes human beings human.

Bei Dao

#32. Our connection to nature grounds us, it makes us more spiritually aware. We must keep the legacy of nature materially alive for future generations.

Nelly Furtado

#33. You either have to find a way to be really creative materially, or you better have a trust fund. And, last I checked, I didn't have a trust fund.

Mark Bradford

#34. I always hope that young people will think for themselves and also most importantly, understand that they should judge themselves on their own merit, their good deeds, however simple, to not judge themselves by what they have materially, by what other people think of them, through social media.

Patti Smith

#35. "We will coordinate efforts of the PLO with responsible authorities in Jordan in all fields - politically, militarily and materially ... " "It was very probable that the Jordan army might start the battle."

Ahmad Shukeiri

#36. The sum of the whole matter is this - our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.

Woodrow Wilson

#37. Most of what we acquire materially is found to not be worth what we must pay spiritually.

Boyd K. Packer

#38. Being on a board is not just about showing up for the meetings. A board member needs to materially contribute to the success of the business.

Scott Weiss

#39. Both men and women remain in dysfunctional, loveless relationships when it is materially opportune.

Bell Hooks

#40. It is probable that television drama of high caliber and produced by first-rate artists will materially raise the level of dramatic taste of the nation.

David Sarnoff

#41. Love, however, is very materially assisted by a warm and active imagination: which has a long memory, and will thrive, for a considerable time, on very slight and sparing food.

Charles Dickens

#42. For me, the best things in life - meaningful work, meaningful relationships, interesting experiences, good food, sleep, music, ideas, sex, and other basic needs and pleasures - are not, past a certain point, materially improved upon by having a lot of money.

Ray Dalio

#43. Love, I saw now, was an exterior spiritual force that swept through our bodies in the symbolic forms of eros, then bound us materially, skin and bone, in the symbolic moment of birth.

Andrew Klavan

#44. In the world in which we live, we give most attention to satisfying the appetites of the body and practically none to the soul ... We become fat physically and materially, while spiritually we are lean, weak, and anemic.

Billy Graham

#45. It is of man's essence to create materially and morally, to fabricate things and to fabricate himself. Homo faber is the definition I propose ... Homo faber, Homo sapiens, I pay my respects to both, for they tend to merge.

Henri Bergson

#46. I refer of course to the soaring wonder of the age known as the Eiffel Tower. Never in history has a structure been more technologically advanced, materially obsolescent, and gloriously pointless all at the same time.

Bill Bryson

#47. My mother's death put me in touch with my most savage self. As I've grown up and come to terms with her death and accepted it, the pieces of her that I keep don't exist materially.

Cheryl Strayed

#48. The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change.

Pierre Schaeffer

#49. You can legally lie about the real world to your heart's content, but until some human being is materially damaged, nobody will complain.

Richard Dawkins

#50. Somewhere back a whiskey or so ago I wrote that thinking was a real thing in the world, just like anything else. I mean that very literally, materially. And it's true about poems, too.

Matthew Zapruder

#51. The richer we have become materially, the poorer we become morally and spiritually. We have learned to fly in the air like birds and swim in the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#52. It is true, I never assisted the sun materially in his rising, but, doubt not, it was of the last importance only to be present at it.

Henry David Thoreau

#53. I have now the gloomy prospect of retiring from office loaded with serious debts, which will materially affect the tranquility of my retirement.

Thomas Jefferson

#54. While Molly and Joseph Anning suffered materially that winter, with many days of weak soup and weaker fires, Mary barely noticed how little she was eating or the chilblains on her hands and feet. She was suffering inside.

Tracy Chevalier

#55. It's just not possible to be a real partner if you aren't materially participating. I believe even the busiest business owners must drive a carpool, pack a lunch, help with homework, make a breakfast or dinner, and consistently attend school events.

Scott Weiss

#56. But defeating one's enemies is only half the game; for a war to be truly justifiable one has to materially gain.

Scott Anderson

#57. At thirty most men have prejudices rather than opinions-that is to say, rather than judgments-and few men have lived to be sixty without materially modifying the opinions they held at thirty.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#58. Foretold by ancient seers and now by scientists, we are at the unprecedented historic and evolutionary crossroad. We have the capacity to transform ourselves spiritually and our civilisation materially or de-evolve into an Orwellian nightmare

Jonathan R. Banks

#59. The Second World War is the largest single event in human history, fought across six of the world's seven continents and all it oceans. It killed 50 million human beings, left hundreds of millions of others wounded in mind or body and materially devastated much of the heartland of civilization.

John Keegan

#60. They did not speak, surprised to see how simple, almost poor, happiness could be, yes, materially poor and yet so abundant.

Andrei Makine

#61. As long as we think our lives are not good enough (materially), we will not have happiness. As soon as we realize our lives are good enough, happiness immediately appears. That is the practice of contentment.

Nhat Hanh

#62. When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the blacks were still poor. Materially, not much changed.

Jonathan Lethem

#63. Conversely, real life is materially invaded by the contemplation of the spectacle, and ends up absorbing it and aligning itself with it.

Guy Debord

#64. The spectacle that falsifies reality is nevertheless a real product of that reality. Conversely, real life is materially invaded by the contemplation of the spectacle, and ends up absorbing it and aligning itself with it. Objective reality is present on both sides.

Anonymous

#65. Let the artist have just enough to eat, and the tools of this trade: ask nothing of him. Materially make the life of the artist sufficiently miserable to be unattractive, and no-one will take to art save those in whom the divine daemon is absolute.

Clive Bell