Materialism Quotes - Page 13

• The very problem of mind and body suggests division; I do not know of anything so disastrously affected by the habit of division as this particular theme. In its discussion are reflected the splitting off from each other of religion, morals and science; the divorce of philosophy from science and of both from the arts of conduct. The evils which we suffer in education, in religion, in the materialism of business and the aloofness of "intellectuals" from life, in the whole separation of knowledge and practice -- all testify to the necessity of seeing mind-body as an integral whole.

  John Dewey

  Art, Philosophy, Divorce

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• Are you winning the battle against materialism?

  Randy Alcorn

  Winning, Battle

  Randy Alcorn (2011). “Money, Possessions, and Eternity”, p.323, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Many South Africans qualify for working visas in the UK and are keen to experience working and living overseas. However, more and more young people are rebelling against the materialistic 'me' generation and are keen to find meaningful work during their stay.

  Susan Harris

  Meaningful, People, Generations

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• All earthly joy begins pleasantly, but at the end it gnaws and kills.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Greed, Joy, Ends

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• As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to talk of any final victory over materialism.

  C. S. Lewis

  Long, Understanding, Victory

  "The Weight of Glory". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1949.

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• The hope for the twentieth century rests on recognition that war and depression are man-made, and needless. They can be avoided in the future by turning from the nineteenth-century characteristics just mentioned (materialism, selfishness, false values, hypocrisy, and secret vices) and going back to other characteristics that our Western Society has always regarded as virtues: generosity, compassion, cooperation, rationality, and foresight, and finding a increased role in human life for love, spirituality, charity, and self discipline.

  Carroll Quigley

  War, Compassion, Men

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• The essence of worldliness is exclusion of God.

  Henry Jacobsen

  Essence, Exclusion, Appearance

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• While sitting on the bank of a river one day, I picked up a solid round stone from the water and broke it open. It was perfectly dry in spite of the fact that it had been immersed in water for centuries. The same is true of many people in the Western world. For centuries they have been surrounded by Christianity; they live immersed in the waters of its benefits. And yet it has not penetrated their hearts; they do not love it. The fault is not in Christianity, but in men's hearts, which have been hardened by materialism and intellectualism.

  Sadhu Sundar Singh

  Heart, Men, Rivers

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• The American dream was not, at least at the beginning, a rags-to-riches type of narrow materialism.

  Charles A. Reich

  Dream, Rags, Riches

  Charles A. Reich (1970). “The Greening of America”

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• But, in fact, materialism is among the most problematic of philosophical standpoints, the most impoverished in its explanatory range, and among the most willful and (for want of a better word) magical in its logic, even if it has been in fashion for a couple of centuries or more.

  David Bentley Hart

  Fashion, Couple, Philosophical

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• Materialism sets us free from sin-by proving that there is no such thing as sin. There's just antisocial behavior, which we can control with measures like laws and educational programs.

  Phillip E. Johnson

  Atheist, Educational, Law

  Phillip E. Johnson (1997). “Defeating Darwinism by opening minds”, Intervarsity Pr

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

  Camille Paglia

  Art, Eras, Geopolitics

  Camille Paglia (2007). “Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-three of the World's Best Poems”, p.17, Vintage

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• I hear an almost inaudible but pervasive discontent with the price we pay for our current materialism. And I hear a fluttering of hope that there might be more to life than bread and circuses.

  Bill Moyers

  Strength, Might, Pay

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• The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the same thing: the corruption of the soul.

  Ben Nicholson

  Greed, Guy, Soul

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• To turn the tide of materialism in the Christian community, we desperately need bold models of kingdom-centered living. Despite our need to do it in a way that doesn't glorify people, we must hear each other's stories about giving or else our people will not learn to give.

  Randy Alcorn

  Christian, People, Giving

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• The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Wild Imagination, Wild Geese, Endless

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• We are so addicted, either to materialism or to transcending material reality, that we don’t see God right in front of us, in the beggar, the starving child, the brokenhearted woman; in our friend; in the cat; in the flea. We miss it, and in missing it, we allow the world to be destroyed.

  Andrew Harvey

  Children, Cat, Reality

  "The Ordinary Decency Of The Heart". Interview with Andrew Lawler, www.thesunmagazine.org. May 2008.

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• Economy and ideology. The claim (presented as an essential postulate of historical materialism) that every fluctuation of politics and ideology can be presented and expounded as an immediate expression of the structure, must be contested in theory as primitive infantilism, and combated in practice with the authentic testimony of Marx, the author of concrete political and historical works.

  Antonio Gramsci

  Expression, Practice, Political

  "Selections from the Prison Notebooks". Book by Antonio Gramsci, 1971.

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• Quite a different thing is, if a seeker, dissatisfied by materialism and doctrines, and longing for spiritual support, will ask advice and information of an adept. In such a case the adept is obliged to supply the seeker with spiritual light and insight, according to his mental powers. Then the magician should spare neither time nor pains to communicate his spiritual treasures and lead the seeker to the light.

  Franz Bardon

  Spiritual, Pain, Light

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• Contemporary movies just drive me crazy. The violence and the sentimentality and the spiritual materialism and Theism and the incredible indulgence in ignorance is so claustrophobic.

  Anne Waldman

  Spiritual, Crazy, Ignorance

  Source: www.poetspath.com

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• Let us be bold enough to ask ourselves as Christians whether the Church of the Lord Jesus in the United States has anything to say to our nation and its ideologies of materialism, possessiveness, and the worship of financial security. Are we courageous enough to be a sign of contradiction to consumerism through our living faith in Jesus Christ? Are we committed enough to his gospel to become a countercurrent to the drift?

  Brennan Manning

  Christian, Jesus, Church

  Brennan Manning (2011). “The Signature of Jesus”, p.73, Multnomah

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• Men are tending to materialism. Houses, lands, and worldly goods attract their attention, and as a mirage lure them on to death. Christianity, on the other hand leads only the natural body to death, and for the spirit, it points out a house not built with hands, eternal in the heavens... Let me urge you to follow Him, not as the Nazarene, the Man of Galilee, the carpenter's son, but as the ever living spiritual person, full of love and compassion, who will stand by you in life and death and eternity.

  James A. Garfield

  Spiritual, Son, Men

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• You're a materialist, like all ignorant people. But your materialism doesn't make materialism true. Don't you know that? In the final summing up, it is spirit and dream, thought and love and act that matter.

  Gene Wolfe

  Dream, People, Ignorant

  Gene Wolfe (2011). “The Citadel of the Autarch: Urth: Book of the New Sun”, p.40, Hachette UK

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• Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Growth, Charity, Kingdoms

  Thomas Carlyle (1894). “The Carlyle reader, selections ed. by J. Wood”

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• [M]an has been accustomed, ever since he was a boy, to having a dozen incompatible philosophies dancing about together inside his head. He doesn't think of doctrines as primarily "true" or "false," but as "academic" or "practical," "outworn" or "contemporary," "conventional" or "ruthless." Jargon, not argument, is your best ally in keeping him from the Church. 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. That's the sort of thing he cares about.

  C. S. Lewis

  Strong, Philosophy, Thinking

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