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Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society. -- Malcolm Muggeridge
I'm not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does. -- Victoria Beckham
The materialistic point of view in psychology can claim, at best, only the value of an heuristic hypothesis. -- Wilhelm Wundt
If I'm a lush at anything, it's food and drink. I'm not materialistic in any way, but I value food. -- Hugh Jackman
Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions. -- Peace Pilgrim
I draw from my family and my friends and I feel like that small-town person. The achievements, the materialistic possessions have really become to mean less. They mean nothing. -- Sheryl Crow
There was a time in my life when I thought I had everything - millions of dollars, mansions, cars, nice clothes, beautiful women, and every other materialistic thing you can imagine. Now I struggle for peace. -- Richard Pryor
There must be a world revolution which puts an end to all materialistic conditions hindering woman from performing her natural role in life and driving her to carry out man's duties in order to be equal in rights. -- Muammar al-Gaddafi
To this day, I am the least materialistic person I know, because my father didn't raise me to just go out and buy this or that car. The only reason I wanted to make money as an actor was because I'm passionate about food! -- Hugh Jackman
But as an adult working in the fashion industry, I struggle with materialism. And I'm one of the least materialistic people that exist, because material possessions don't mean much to me. They're beautiful, I enjoy them, they can enhance your life to a certain degree, but they're ultimately not important. -- Tom Ford
Materialistic I'm narcissistic My shoe game is mean It's so sadistic -- Nicki Minaj
Materialistic things bring forth some pleasurable moments, but never a sample of happiness. -- Edmond Mbiaka
Females in our generation morals are just out the window. Materialistic things aren't life. I'd rather walk in the rain with a man who treats me like a queen than to ride in a Benz with a man who treats me like crap. -- Jhene Aiko
The entire money structure and materialistic society is a false society... -- Jacque Fresco
A materialistic world will not be won to Christ by a materialistic church. -- David Platt
The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication. -- Patti Smith
You know when you eat too many sweets and get diabetes? Paparazzi are the diabetes of materialistic culture. -- Shirley MacLaine
The great question of our time is, 'Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?' -- Billy Graham
Cars and cameras are the two things I let myself be materialistic about. I don't care about other stuff. -- Louis C. K.
As human beings, we're very materialistic and have all this stuff - furs and cars and diamonds and money. -- Smokey Robinson
If you are really a product of a materialistic universe, how is it that you don't feel at home there? -- C. S. Lewis
Man is the result of a purposeless and materialistic process that did not have him in mind. He was not planned. -- George Gaylord Simpson
England has become a squalid, uncomfortable, ugly place ... an intolerant, racist, homophobic, narrow-minded, authoritarian, rat-hole run by vicious, suburban-minded, materialistic philistines. -- Hanif Kureishi
The adornment of the body is a human need. I don't see anything superficial about it unless your life becomes very materialistic. -- David LaChapelle
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
I take things like honor and loyalty seriously. It's more important to me than any materialistic thing or any fame I could have. -- Lloyd Banks
We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don't satisfy us. The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted. -- Mitch Albom
Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.' -- Paul McCartney
I noted that people are happy here in India. When I went back home, people had everything in the materialistic sense and were surrounded with abundance, but they were not happy. -- Goldie Hawn
Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power. -- Joan Didion
When we analyze this war in a materialistic way and ask when is it going to end and who will be the winner and the loser, it means that we do not see the endgame. -- Bashar al-Assad
Real success is not, like, materialistic. It's being where you want to be when you want to be; just living your life how you feel; having an ultimate goal and being able to accomplish it. -- Lindsey Wixson
The so-called 'materialistic conception of history,' with the crude elements of genius of the early form which appeared, for instance, in the 'Communist Manifesto,' still prevails only in the minds of laymen and dilettantes. -- Max Weber
I think I'm actually quite a materialistic person, I value what it takes to make a car or build a nice house. Money does change things, but how it changes people depends on how they react to it. -- Roland Gift
Contrary to the vulgar belief that men are motivated primarily by materialistic considerations, we now see the capitalist system being discredited and destroyed all over the world, even though this system has given men the greatest material comforts. -- Ayn Rand
I don't want to be too strict, because I think kids can get rebellious, but I want to raise my daughter to be passionate about doing good things and pursuing real things and hobbies instead of frivolous materialistic stuff. -- Holly Madison
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
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
Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.' Paul McCartney I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming. -- Jimmy Carter
True Americanism is practical idealism. Its aims, instead of being materialistic and mechanical, are idealistic to the point of being Utopian. In this way, the U.S. can provide and express ideals that strike a chord in humans everywhere - a declaration of independence on behalf of all the peoples of the world. -- Maurice Saatchi
Miami is nothing like me, and that's why I need to be here - it's the opposite. I'm practical, where this place is moody, I'm stolid in my interior, where this place has a certain flair, and I'm materialistic in a sense that this place is fundamentally spiritual - there's a quicksilver quality about this place. -- Iggy Pop
I'm just disillusioned with the hip-hop sound right now. It's too materialistic. You know, I'm the kind of guy ... I can't do that. If you track my movement, you'll never see a picture of me with any girl that wasn't mine, or my own car. My jewelry, my clothes. What kind of gangsta rapper has a stylist? A stylist?! -- Ice T
With a new familiarity and a flesh-creeping homeliness entirely of this unreal, materialistic world, where all sentiment is coarsely manufactured and advertised in colossal sickly captions, disguised for the sweet tooth of a monstrous baby called the Public, the family as it is, broken up on all hands by the agency of feminist and economic propaganda, reconstitutes itself in the image of the state. -- Wyndham Lewis
Modern capitalism is just as subversive as Marxism. The materialistic view of life on which both systems are based is identical. As long as we only talk about economic classes, profit, salaries, and production, and as long as we believe that real human progress is determined by a particular system of distribution of wealth and goods, then we are not even close to what is essential. -- Julius Evola
I'm not a materialistic person. -- Marat Safin
A purely materialistic art would be... -- Haile Selassie
I'm more materialistic about myself than I am about objects -- Patti Smith
... the great artists ... do not want security, egoistic or materialistic. -- Brenda Ueland
Posterity will one day laugh at the foolishness of modern materialistic philosophers. -- Louis Pasteur
The fact remains that the materialistic view is a truncated view of reality. -- Stephen C. Meyer
A merely symbolic religion does not threaten the ruling regime of materialistic science. -- Nancy Pearcey
In a materialistic society, an employed boy is older than an unemployed man. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Fashion isn't me, even though I work in it. It's just materialistic stuff. -- Agyness Deyn
The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic. -- Edward Abbey
Linux has definitely made a lot of sense even in a purely materialistic sense. -- Linus Torvalds
Today, society is sacrificing love, values and dharma in its pursuit of materialistic gains. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
The atheist worldview of life is a materialistic culture that frees humanity from superstition. -- Howard Thompson
Weak and oppressed nations are fundamentally spiritual; strong nations are, as a rule, chiefly materialistic. -- Ameen Rihani
If materialistic knowledge is power, it is not wisdom. It is but a blind force. -- Mary Baker Eddy
Popular culture is morally bankrupt, flagrantly licentious and utterly materialistic-and Madonna is the worst of all. -- Tipper Gore
...a little kindness-love-smile-understanding-willingness to help each other may yet go a mighty long way in contemporary-rational-materialistic-world.... -- Isabella Koldras
It is our homes and families that need reforming in this increasingly materialistic and secular world. -- M. Russell Ballard
The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word "luxury. -- Alain de Botton
The age is materialistic. Verse isn't. I must be with the age, so I am writing prose. -- Paul Laurence Dunbar
The time has come to realize that supersensible knowledge has now to arise from the materialistic grave. -- Rudolf Steiner
We are born rich, it is for us to decide between materialistic poorness or building upon intellectual richness. -- Vishwas Chavan
Talking about a materialistic thing, I get about 13 times more royalties from Europe than I do from America. -- Elliott Carter
The world is facing a historic turning point because the system of materialistic liberalism has come to a deadlock. -- Kingoro Hashimoto
Being someone who is of our sensual reality, Stephen Strange has a lifestyle, he has a sexuality, he's materialistic. -- Benedict Cumberbatch
The life sciences contain spiritual values which can never be explained by the materialistic attitude of present day science -- Sherwin B. Nuland
There's good stuff going on in modern pop music, but a lot of it is really materialistic and only about money. -- Joe Goddard
I ask you to write this deeply into your souls . . . the materialistic culture . . . is now on the way to its close. -- Rudolf Steiner
The prospect of being immortal doesn't excite me, but the prospect of being a materialistic idol for four years does appeal. -- Marc Bolan
That is the job of the Catholic Church, to be a balance to the materialistic drives of our culture and of economy. -- David Brooks
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Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity. -- Stanislav Grof
The strongest argument for the un-materialistic character of American life is that we tolerate conditions that are, from a materialistic point of view, intolerable. -- Mary McCarthy
A materialistic person is ruthless with other people but kind to himself. A spiritual person is ruthless with himself but kind to everybody else. -- Jaggi Vasudev
Our enemies believed America was weak and materialistic, that we would splinter in fear and selfishness. They were as wrong as they are evil. -- George W. Bush
The more materialistic science becomes, the more angels shall I paint. Their wings are my protest in favor of the immortality of the soul. -- Edward Burne-Jones
According to materialistic science, any memory requires a material substrate, such as the neuronal network in the brain or the DNA molecules of the genes. -- Stanislav Grof
The standard entertainment industry reaction to Hollywood's box office slump reveals the same shallow, materialistic mindset that helped create the problem in the first place. -- Michael Medved
In a world where we are so pragmatic and materialistic, fear is the only emotion that allows even a sophisticated person to believe in something beyond. -- Guillermo del Toro
A purely materialistic art would be like a tree which is expected to bear fruit without flowering and to sacrifice grace and beauty for mere utility -- Haile Selassie
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
Because the existing education system is oriented towards materialistic goals we need to pay special attention to inner values such as tolerance, forgiveness, love and compassion. -- Dalai Lama
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
When an American heiress wants to buy a man, she at once crosses the Atlantic. The only really materialistic people I have ever met have been Europeans. -- Mary McCarthy
The materialistic paradigm of Western science has been a major obstacle for any objective evaluation of the data describing the events occurring at the time of death. -- Stanislav Grof
Happiness is never found in materialistic things; it exists in things that cannot be physically possessed. Therefore, happiness is priceless. It can never be purchased. Love is happiness. -- Ellen J. Barrier
We're not as materialistic and income-tax conscious as we think. At the moment our superstitions are tucked away, but come out sometimes in strange ways sex crimes, black masses. -- Terence Fisher
Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool. -- Paul McCartney
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
... it is a welcome symptom in an age which is commonly denounced as materialistic, that it makes heroes of men whose goals lie wholly in the intellectual and moral sphere. -- Albert Einstein
Further, for once, I like the idea that people who think I'm a constant voice for the furthering of the imagination have to see that interest in a more materialistic fashion. -- Peter Sotos
The situation of the factory worker today is reminiscent in certain respects of that of the nineteenth-century capitalist whose wife dragged him reluctantly toward "culture" and away from his "materialistic" preoccupations. -- David Riesman
Two erroneous impressions ... seem to be current among certain groups of uninformed persons. The first is that religion today stands for mediaeval theology; the second that science is materialistic and irreligious. -- Robert Andrews Millikan
The human interest, and the natural interest, and the spiritual interest of this planet need to begin to take a priority over the corporate interest, the military interest, and the materialistic interests. -- Michael Franti
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
I'm a Taurean, so I'm very passionate and determined and materialistic. Down the years, I've spent a lot of money and saved a bit of money and had a lot of fun. -- Martine McCutcheon
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
I would say I don't like people who are really into themselves or are very materialistic. Just always talking themselves up. Not being real is the pet peeve. Be true to yourself. -- Austin Stowell
An absolutely devastating ridicule of all that is false, primitive, and vicious in current American life: the abuses of power, hero worship, aimless violence, materialistic obsession, intolerance, and every form of hypocrisy. -- Terry Southern
If Christians would have the same faith in their God that non-Christians have in a mere materialistic idea, 'Thy Kingdom come' would shortly be a reality in this world of sorrow and travail. -- Ben Salmon
The truth of faith about creation is radically opposed to the theories of materialistic philosophy. These view the cosmos as the result of an evolution of matter reducible to pure chance and necessity. -- Pope John Paul II
Prosperity cannot be experienced by living detached from Nature. Everything else is only a gradation of materialistic, earthly ambitions. We came from the stars and there lies the path to our substantive evolution. -- Grigoris Deoudis
I'm not that materialistic. I like nice clothes and that, but I don't spend lots of money on stuff. I'm not really into TV, I don't have an iPod, I've got a gramophone. -- Paloma Faith
In a materialistic society, man is likely to value the opinion of a rich man over that of a poor one; even when coming to opinions that have absolutely nothing to do with moneymaking. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Yes, of course [this age] is materialistic, but the only way to counteract it is to create spiritual things. Don't worry yourself about the materialism too much. Create and stir other people to create! -- Robert Frost
The so-called materialistic conception of history, with the crude elements of genius of the early form which appeared, for instance, in the Communist Manifesto, still prevails only in the minds of laymen and dilettantes. -- Max Weber
Real success is not, like, materialistic. It's being where you want to be when you want to be, just living your life how you feel, having an ultimate goal and being able to accomplish it. -- Lindsey Wixson
Jobs has within him sort of this conflict, but he doesn't quite see it as a conflict between being hippie-ish and anti-materialistic but wanting to sell things like Wozniak's board. Wanting to create a business. -- Walter Isaacson

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