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• Posterity will one day laugh at the foolishness of modern materialistic philosophers.

  Louis Pasteur

  Laughing, One Day, Philosopher

  "The Literary Digest" Magazine, October 18, 1902.

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• ... the great artists ... do not want security, egoistic or materialistic.

  Brenda Ueland

  Artist, Want, Great Art

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• The cult of nature is a form of patronage by people who have declared their materialistic independence from nature and do not have to struggle with nature every day of their lives.

  Brooks Atkinson

  Struggle, People, Independence

  Brooks Atkinson (1951). “Once around the sun”

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• Christianity isn’t moving people’s lives today. What’s moving people’s lives is the stock market and the baseball scores. What are people excited about? It’s a totally materialistic level that has taken over the world. There isn’t even an ideal that anybody’s fighting for.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Baseball, Moving

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• My dad's side of the family are missionaries who are more comfortable sitting around in sweatpants than they are in a five-star restaurant. But those two influences converged in my life. My heart is in helping people and in the less materialistic side of things, but there's the side of me that's more polished. If I were to live in Africa, serving the poor, the number-one thing I'd miss wouldn't be running water or electricity—it would be style...being able to get dressed up and feel beautiful.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Beautiful, Running, Stars

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• The American people have to think hard about their definition of the meaning of the good life, that hedonistic, materialistic society of high levels of consumption, increasing social inequality is not a society that can be part of the solution of the world's problems.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Good Life, Thinking, People

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• We are so defined by how people see us. We're a very materialistic culture. We're a very image-driven culture. What if that goes away and you are left with, God help us, what, indeed, is your essential self?

  Christine Baranski

  Self, People, What If

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• For 40 years we were led to think of the Russians as godless, materialistic and an evil empire. When the Cold War ended, we suddenly discovered that Russia was a poor Third World country. They had not been equipped to take over the world. In fact, they were just trying to improve a miserable standard of oppressive living, and couldn't. They had to spend too much on arms build-up. We didn't win the Cold War; we bankrupted the Russians. In effect, it was a big bank exhausting the reserves of a smaller one.

  Norman Mailer

  Country, War, Winning

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• Athens built the Acropolis. Corinth was a commercial city, interested in purely materialistic things. Today we admire Athens, visit it, preserve the old temples, yet we hardly ever set foot in Corinth.

  Harold Urey

  Cities, Feet, History

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• There is at the moment in the world a battle going on between those who are pursuing materialistic paths-globalizers of economic growth and those hell-bent on this 'big is better' idea-on the one hand, and on the other hand those who are dedicated to spiritual renewal, more small-scale development, more human scale, more sustainability, more crafts and arts. Where human beings are not just sold to companies and money and those kinds of things. Where human beings have a sacred path.

  Satish Kumar

  God, Spiritual, Art

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• As long as our consciousness is materialistic, there is no room for joy. However on the spiritual platform three things automatically happen: eternity, knowledge and bliss.

  Bhakti Charu Swami

  Spiritual, Long, Joy

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• Just how we fit into the plans of the Great Architect and how much he has assigned us to do we do not know, but if we fail in our assignment it is pretty certain that a part of the job will be left undone.

  Robert Andrews Millikan

  Jobs, Philosophy, Responsibility

  "The autobiography of Robert A. Millikan".

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• If the conquest of a great peak brings moments of exultation and bliss, which in the monotonous, materialistic existence of modern times nothing else can approach, it also presents great dangers. It is not the goal of ‘grand alpinisme’ to face peril, but it is one of the tests one must undergo to deserve the joy of rising for an instant above the state of crawling grubs.

  Lionel Terray

  Mountain Peaks, Climbing, Goal

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• The life sciences contain spiritual values which can never be explained by the materialistic attitude of present day science

  Sherwin B. Nuland

  Spiritual, Attitude, Present Day

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• Love is not materialistic. It's intangible yet somehow an undeniable feeling. You know it when you have it. I have lots of love in my life and I am blessed.

  Melanie Iglesias

  Blessed, Love Is, Feelings

  "Melanie Iglesias: The Practice of Happiness". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• It is our homes and families that need reforming in this increasingly materialistic and secular world.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Home, Needs, World

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• Having a son had an immediate impact on me, that's when I started taking my business, my time and having something to show for myself seriously. My time has to be compensated. People may call me materialistic or whatever but if I spend 20 hours away from my son, if I don't bring anything home, then what was I doing with my time? It's simple, it's my son and then everything else.

  Dom Kennedy

  Home, Son, Simple

  Source: lasentinel.net

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• I know it sounds old-fashioned to say we're too materialistic in the West, but happiness does not derive exclusively from things, and yet we seem to be structuring our whole society around things. I think that's partially why Westerners are joining ISIS and going to Syria. We have lost our way in the West in holding up a vision for humanity that is not exclusively shaped by materialism.

  Sarah Chayes

  Thinking, Humanity, Vision

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There are many beliefs that we have seen as truth in Western civilization for hundreds of years. We live according to these "truths" and as a result manifesting a life using those beliefs, which can be very self-destructive. So these beliefs will affect decisions in economics and politics and everything else that we do. One myth-perception is our continued emphasis of a Newtonian materialistic world, which by definition emphasizes the primacy of matter and somewhat ignores or minimizes the influence of the immaterial part of the universe.

  Bruce H. Lipton

  Decision, World, Belief

  Source: lotusguide.com

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• I've lived a lot in communist countries and they're intensely interested in money. I think they are more interested in money than capitalists are. They're the most materialistic people in the world. What they're actually living for is material things. The irony of that is that in communist countries there isn't anything to buy.

  Truman Capote

  Country, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Being someone who is of our sensual reality, Stephen Strange has a lifestyle, he has a sexuality, he's materialistic.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Reality, Sensual, Strange

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• American culture is probably the least Christian culture that we've ever had because it is so materialistic and it's so full of lies. The whole advertising world is just, it's just intertwined with lies, appealing to the worst of the instincts we have.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Christian, Lying, Culture

  Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. August 12, 2011.

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• The society that produced The Who, The Stones, Dylan, Paul McCartney and later on people, like myself, is over. The materialistic society that produces these kinds of bombastic performances that don't have any value or musical meaning, is very conspicuous, look at me, I'm rich, dig my brand. That's what missing, Bob Dylan made us feel worthy, I try to do the same thing. Respect for the audience with music that is meaningful and soulful. Go for what moves you and not necessarily what you think will be commercial.

  Don McLean

  Meaningful, Moving, Thinking

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• We grew up in a very material-lacking socialist society, but today China is a capitalist society. It's very materialistic. It's full of desire and luxury goods.

  Ai Weiwei

  Luxury, Desire, Today

  Interview with Claudine Ko, believermag.com. November 1, 2007.

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• My heart is in helping people and in the less materialistic side of things, but there's the side of me that's more polished.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Heart, People, Sides

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