Materialism Quotes

• The Truth doesn't need your cooperation to exist. All forms of cult, all forms of hype, all forms of delusion do require your participation in order to exist. I've looked into marginal areas of human experience -historical and otherwise- with a rational mind, and what I've found is that doorways into the miraculous are far fewer than the publicists of the New Age would have us believe. On the other hand, they are not as rare as the proponents of radical reductionism and materialism would have us believe. There are doorways out of the mundane.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Mind
  • Age
  • Cooperation

• We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • World
  • Humanity
  • Matter

• When social critics deplore the materialism of our time and its preoccupation with money, fame, and superficial values, they overlook that the driving force behind the changes we have seen -- one of the greatest periods of change in history -- has been thought. It wasn't big bucks or social status that drove this change. It was, and is, the force of the play of the mind. As materialistic as we may be, playful thinking got us here.

  

  Edward Hallowell
  • Money
  • History
  • Play

• 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
  • Career
  • Success
  • Generation

• Science has, after all, made some colossal blunders in the past... Our current materialism and its rejection of the idea of a spirit or soul might be just another great falsity.

  

  Susan Blackmore
  • Science
  • Past
  • Materialism

• We come from a proud tradition of people who have insisted that none of us can be truly successful until at least the barriers to such success and thriving are completely removed. I think the black narcissism that prevails, along with the stylish materialism and self-satisfied, smug attitudes among many of our upwardly mobile brothers and sisters should be identified and criticized.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • Proud
  • Brother
  • Attitude

• The Feminist Standpoint: Developing the Ground for a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism.

  

  Nancy Hartsock
  • Feminist
  • Materialism
  • Standpoint

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