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

• Materialism is incomplete even as a theory of the physical world, since the physical world includes conscious organisms among its most striking occupants.

  

  Thomas Nagel
  • World
  • Theory
  • Conscious

• The most loathsome materialism is not the kind people usually think of, but the sort that attempts to let dead ideas pass for living realities, diverting into sterile myths the stubborn and lucid attention we give to what we have within us that must forever die.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Die
  • Realities
  • Materialism

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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