Materialism Quotes

Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.

It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.

It's no secret that in New York during the last 30 years there has been a tragic exodus from the churches into materialism, secularism and humanism.

Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over.

Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.

But as an adult working in the fashion industry, I struggle with materialism. And I'm one of the least materialistic people that exist, because material possessions don't mean much to me. They're beautiful, I enjoy them, they can enhance your life to a certain degree, but they're ultimately not important.

The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism.

In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.

After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared.

That feeling of freedom, open highways of possibilities, has kind of been lost to materialism and marketing.

I always prided myself on the fact that I could live out of milk crates forever. It was kind of my way of detaching from materialism.

Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.

Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.

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

This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the world.

Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss.

More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and the Right.

An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.