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Materialist philosophies that treat human beings as machines or animals possess the high ground in our culture - academia, the most powerful media and many of our courts. -- Marvin Olasky
The materialist is sure that history has been simply and solely a chain of causation, just as the [lunatic] is quite sure that he is simply and solely a chicken. Materialists and madmen never have doubts. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is not to be understood that I am with him (Jesus Christ) in all his doctrines. I am a Materialist; he takes the side of Spiritualism; he preaches the efficacy of repentance toward forgiveness of sin; I require a counterpoise of good works to redeem it. -- Thomas Jefferson
Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist. -- Fidel Castro
I think the materialist conception of history is valid. -- Christopher Hitchens
The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels. -- Malcolm de Chazal
We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where. -- Wole Soyinka
Darwinism as presented by Darwin contradicted idealistic philosophy, and this contradiction grew deeper with the development of its materialist teaching. -- Trofim Lysenko
The secular world is more spiritual than it thinks, just as the ecclesiastical world is more materialist than it cares to acknowledge. -- Lionel Blue
A major fault, for example, is the fact that, along with the materialist principle, Darwin introduced into his theory of evolution reactionary Malthusian ideas. -- Trofim Lysenko
A change in external circumstances without inner renewal is a materialist's illusion, as though man were only a product of his social circumstance and nothing else. -- Jurgen Moltmann
I'm a big believer in minimalism. Not materialist minimalism, although that's part of it, but time and energy minimalism. The body is given only so much energy a day. -- James Altucher
The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open. -- John Berger
Even when Darwin's teaching first made its appearance, it became clear at once that its scientific, materialist core, its teaching concerning the evolution of living nature, was antagonistic to the idealism that reigned in biology. -- Trofim Lysenko
Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level. -- A. N. Wilson
The classics of Marxism, while fully appreciating the significance of the Darwinian theory, pointed out the errors of which Darwin was guilty. Darwin's theory, though unquestionably materialist in its main features, is not free from some serious errors. -- Trofim Lysenko
Science regards man as an aggregation of atoms temporarily united by a mysterious force called the life-principle. To the materialist, the only difference between a living and a dead body is that in the one case that force is active, in the other latent. -- Annie Besant
Spirituality does two things for you. One, you are forced to become more selfless, two, you trust to providence. The opposite of a spiritual man is a materialist. If I was a materialist I would be making lots of money doing endorsements, doing cricket commentary. I have no interest in that. -- Imran Khan
I once did a radio program with a famous materialist, that is to say a scientist who believed that absolutely everything was physical and that all emotions were reductive to little electrical impulses in your neurons. And I found that I didn't believe that. But what the emotions really are, I don't have an alternative theory. -- Tom Stoppard
Historical capitalism is a materialist civilization. -- Immanuel Wallerstein
I'm a strict materialist - but the police are brutal materialists. -- Jack Williamson
Any half-awake materialist well knows - that which you hold holds you. -- Tom Robbins
If you are not being attacked by materialist, you must be doing something wrong -- Radhanath Swami
West is too materialist; East is too spiritual; North is too cold; South is too loose! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
I'm very odd 'cause I think there's more than just a materialist planet, a materialist, reductionist planet. -- John Cleese
James Bond: a paid assassin of plutocratic cartels, a womanizer, a dipsomaniac, a speed demon, a materialist. -- O Anna Niemus
Every materialist will be an idealist; but an idealist can never go backward to be a materialist. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can be an extreme materialist, thinking that economic development ultimately determines everything; then you are truly ideological. -- Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
I don't quite see the 20th century as one of chaos. But I believe in certain inevitable outcomes of a materialist nature. -- Rachel Kushner
Any materialist philosophy must take as its point of departure the existence of a material world that is independent of our minds. -- Manuel De Landa
By nature, I am a materialist... It is exactly these impingements upon our sense of touch and so forth that I'm interested in. -- Carl Andre
And perhaps, exhibiting the fruit of the Spirit may be our very best defense against a materialist view of mankind here on earth. -- Philip Yancey
Socialism and capitalism are both essentially materialist, just different ways of approaching the lifeless world of matter and deciding how to share the spoils. -- Iain McGilchrist
It's no fun to appreciate to the full the truth of the materialist proposition that I don't have a body, I am a body. -- Christopher Hitchens
Mitchell claimed that her materialist view leads to "humbleness." But it is not humbling; it is dehumanizing. It essentially reduces humans to robots. -- Nancy Pearcey
The materialist assumption that spiritual substances do not exist is as much an act of faith as the religious belief in the reality of angels. -- Mortimer Adler
The natural scientist must be a modern materialist, a conscious adherent of the materialism represented by Marx, i.e., he must be a dialectical materialist. -- Vladimir Lenin
The church and the scientific community are fighting at times a common enemy: the truth religion cannot deny and the positivist materialist scientist is unable to explain. -- Paul Greene
In place of an intensive cooperation among artists, there is a battle for goods. Hatred, partisanship, cliques, jealousy, and intrigues are the natural consequences of an aimless, materialist art. -- Wassily Kandinsky
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The power of the Marxian critique of class domination stands as an implicit suggestion that feminists should consider the advantages of adopting a historical materialist approach to understanding phallocratic domination. -- Nancy Hartsock
Aviation has struck a delicately balanced world, a world where stability was already giving way to the pressure of new dynamic forces, a world dominated by a mechanical, materialist, Western European civilization. -- Charles Lindbergh
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

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