Materialism is decadent and degenerate only if the spirit of the nation has withered and if individual people are so unimaginative that they wallow in it.
Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still entangled with the desire for ownership.
Religion without science is superstition. Science without religion is materialism.
Only just now awakening after years of materialism, our soul is still infected with the despair born of unbelief, of lack of purpose and aim.
In L. A. like there's a lot of like materialism and, you know, people who think they're better than each other because of the clothes they wear or how they dress and in Oakland it's not like that.
Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.
You cannot solve the problem by turning to communism, for communism is based on an ethical relativism and a metaphysical materialism that no Christian can accept.
He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first stone upon the materialism of the economists.
Contrary to what they tell you. . . You are not a limited material being.
It really is a very radical call. . . to reject materialism as our central value and to think about the sanctity of life and what that really means if we take it seriously.
If we do want to do that [ colonise space to survive, ], then vacuous materialism is not going to be enough for us.
Let there be as little materialism as possible, with the maximum of spirituality.
Because a human is a someone and not a something, the source of human life must also be a Someone - not the blind, automatic forces of nature, as philosophies like naturalism and materialism tell us.
To believe that mind is all, that thought is all is only a higher materialism.
Materialism is the philosophy of the subject who forgets to take account of himself.
An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn't called a decade of greed.
It's so easy today to get swept up in celebrity fixation and materialism and searching for some validation outside of yourself when we know it's really found within and through meaningful connections with other people.
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.
Materialism, which gives priority to material needs and objects, is obviously the opposite of spirituality
A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.