Materialism Quotes - Page 4

• Superstitions are all materialism, because they are all based on the consciousness of body, body, body. No spirit there. Spirit has no superstitions - it is beyond the vain desires of the body.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Desire, Body, Superstitions

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3600, Manonmani Publishers

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• Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.

  Andrei Platonov

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• To believe that mind is all, that thought is all is only a higher materialism.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Believe, Mind, Higher

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2375, Manonmani Publishers

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• The materialistic idealism that governs American life, that on the one hand makes a chariot of every grocery wagon, and on the other a mere hitching post of every star, lets every man lead a very enticing double life.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Stars, Men, Hands

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• We need leadership that can elevate religion and morality to their position of paramount importance and thus eliminate growing selfishness, immorality and materialism.

  George W. Romney

  Selfishness, Needs, Growing

  "Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report", Volume 25, Part 3, p. 2388, 1967.

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

  Arthur Erickson

  Artist, America, Management

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• Materialism prevails in Europe today. You may pray for the salvation of the modern sceptics, but they do not yield, they want reason.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Yield, Europe, May

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.54, editionNEXT.com

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• Do not think you need necessarily have as fine swords and clothing as your neighbor. As long as they are not disreputable, they will do. And if you borrow and so lose your independence, you will be despised.

  Hojo Soun

  Thinking, Long, Independence

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• The idea of God grew side by side with the idea of materialism.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Ideas, Sides, Grew

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.446, Manonmani Publishers

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• The truth is that things matter. They have to, they are what we live with and touch each and every day. They represent what we've seen, who we've loved and where we hope to go next. They remind us of the good times and the rough patches and everything in between that's made us who we are.

  Nate Berkus

  Love, Life, Meaningful

  Nate Berkus (2012). “The Things That Matter”, p.10, Spiegel & Grau

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• No one has ever laughed at a pun who did not see in the one word a twofold meaning. To materialists this world is opaque like a curtain; nothing can be seen through it. A mountain is just a mountain, a sunset just a sunset; but to poets, artists, and saints, the world is transparent like a window pane - it tells of something beyond....a mountain tells of the Power of God, the sunset of His Beauty, and the snowflake of His Purity.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Beauty, God, Faith

  Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, Aeterna Press (2015). “These are the Sacraments”, p.5, Aeterna Press

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• Contrary to what they tell you... You are not a limited material being.

  Amit Goswami

  Spiritual, Quantum Physics, Physicist

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• Modern education is premised strongly on materialistic values. It is vital that when educating our children's brains that we do not neglect to educate their hearts, a key element of which has to be the nurturing of our compassionate nature.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Sympathy, Education

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• Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Love, Money, Men

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1972). “The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes”

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• Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.

  Albert Einstein

  Stupidity, Greed, Three

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• We are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to expand.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Motivational, Success, Giving

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann, Frédéric Jacob Soret (1850). “Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret”, p.70

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• I certainly understand that we're all trying to make a living, but I'm not thinking about that when I'm making it. And if that's your sole motivation, it's going to reflect that narcissistic greed and you're going to hear it in the music.

  Aimee Mann

  Motivation, Thinking, Greed

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• The fact remains that the materialistic view is a truncated view of reality.

  Stephen C. Meyer

  Reality, Views, Facts

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• You have to decide to servant the gods of materialism all around us or the true and the living God.

  Billy Graham

  Choices, Servant

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• Solitude is a way to defend the spirit against the murderous din of our materialism.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Solitude, Way

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• To what faults do you feel most indulgent? To the ones that arise from urgent material needs.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Needs, Faults, Arise

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch-22: A Memoir”, p.251, Hachette UK

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• Do not be caught up in materialism, one of the real plagues of our generation-that is, acquiring things, fast-paced living, and securing career success.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Life, Success, Real

  Ezra Taft Benson (1990). “Come, Listen to a Prophet's Voice”, Shadow Mountain

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• I believe that the Hindu faith has developed the spiritual in its devotees at the expense of the material, and I think that in the Western world the contrary is true. By uniting the materialism of the West with the spiritualism of the East I believe much can be accomplished. It may be that in the attempt the Hindu faith will lose much of its individuality.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Spiritual, Believe, Thinking

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3224, Manonmani Publishers

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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

  Money, Inspired, Prosperity

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• Man stands in materialism; you and I are materialists. Our talking about God and Spirit is good; but it is simply the vogue in our society to talk thus: we have learnt it parrot-like and repeat it. So we have to take ourselves where we are as materialists, and must take the help of matter and go on slowly until we become real spiritualists, and feel ourselves spirits, understand the spirit, and find that this world which we call the infinite is but a gross external form of that world which is behind.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Real, Men, Talking

  Swami Vivekananda (1966). “Complete Works”

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