quotes about Materialism
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A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.
-- Adam Sedgwick -
Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.
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How good something is should never be determined by its cost, designer, origin, or its perceived value by others.
-- Ashly Lorenzana -
The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.
-- Bryant H. McGill -
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No social system will bring us happiness, health and prosperity unless it is inspired by something greater than materialism.
-- Clement Attlee -
Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still entangled with the desire for ownership.
-- E. M. Forster -
Solipsism may be logically consistent with present Quantum Mechanics, Monism in the sense of Materialism is not.
-- Eugene WignerSource : Eugene Paul Wigner (2012). “Philosophical Reflections and Syntheses”, p.252, Springer Science & Business Media
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There is one advantage to having nothing, it never needs repair.
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Dualism makes the problem insoluble; materialism denies the existence of any phenomenon to study, and hence of any problem.
-- John SearleSource : "Consciousness and Language". Book by John Searle, 2002.
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Materialism ends up denying the existence of any irreducible subjective qualitative states of sentience or awareness.
-- John SearleSource : "Consciousness and Language". Book by John Searle, 2002.
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We need to move away from crass, consumption-driven materialism by de-materialising status
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Marxism is not only the theory of socialism, it is an integral world outlook, a philosophical system, from which Marx’s proletarian socialism logically follows. This philosophical system is called dialectical materialism.
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Individually, people are finding that a simpler lifestyle provides greater satisfaction than relentless pursuit of materialism.
-- Laurance RockefellerSource : "U-Turn: What If You Woke Up One Morning and Realized You Were Living the". Book by Bruce Grierson, p.53, April 3, 2007.
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The Feminist Standpoint: Developing the Ground for a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism
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An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn't called a decade of greed.
-- Paul Samuelson -
Naturalism and materialism mean essentially the same thing.
-- Philip Johnson -
Are you winning the battle against materialism?
-- Randy Alcorn -
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Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical.
-- Rupert Sheldrake -
The history of prevailing status quos shows decay and decadence infecting the opulent materialism of the Haves. The spiritual life of the Haves is a ritualistic justification of their possessions.
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Americans consume three quarters of the world's anti-depressants because materialism will never bring happiness.
-- Shmuley BoteachSource : Source: www.beliefnet.com
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If capitalism begins as the practical idealism of the aspiring bourgeoisie, it ends ... as an orgy of materialism.
-- Talcott ParsonsSource : Max Weber, Talcott Parsons (2003). “The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism”, p.3, Courier Corporation
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Materialism is incomplete even as a theory of the physical world, since the physical world includes conscious organisms among its most striking occupants.
-- Thomas NagelSource : Thomas Nagel (2012). “Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False”, p.39, Oxford University Press
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Religion without science is superstition. Science without religion is materialism.
-- Bahá'u'lláh -
If we do want to do that [ colonise space to survive, ], then vacuous materialism is not going to be enough for us.
-- Quentin S. Crisp -
There's that great Irish joke: a man is lost in the countryside, stops a passer-by: 'how do I get to Dublin?'. The passer-by says 'well, I wouldn't start from here'. Rather than starting by talking in the abstract about materialism, dualism, 'material stuff' and things like that in regard to the mind, I would rather start from somewhere else.
-- Tim Crane -
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It really is a very radical call ... to reject materialism as our central value and to think about the sanctity of life and what that really means if we take it seriously.
-- Naomi OreskesSource : Source: to.pbs.org
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Now, science cannot completely exclude the possibility of supernatural explanation. It is possible though very unlikely that our whole world is controlled by elves. But supernatural explanations like these are simply never needed; we manage to understand the natural world just fine using reason and materialism.
-- Jerry A. CoyneSource : Jerry A. Coyne (2009). “Why Evolution is True”, p.245, Oxford University Press, USA