Solitude is a way to defend the spirit against the murderous din of our materialism.
If we do want to do that [ colonise space to survive, ], then vacuous materialism is not going to be enough for us.
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.
All earthly joy begins pleasantly, but at the end it gnaws and kills.
There will be calmness, tranquility, when one is free from external objects and is not perturbed.
Look, Salvador Dali did not paint because he needed the money. No conversation about materialism and music makes sense. You make music and that's that, it doesn't matter why.
Materialism is the consciousness of wanting to exploit and enjoy.
If European symbols and traditions have grown tired, perfunctory and oppressively banal in Australia, or been drained of spirit and meaning by the dreary dictates of materialism and secularity, then the raw spirit truth of our native land is alive and radiant by comparison. For joy and meaning we might well turn to our natural country and witness miracles of vitality and new life, of inspiration and profound beauty; all in some humble, quiet and improbable place.
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.
The closed circle of materialism is clear to us now - aspirations become wants, wants become needs, and self-gratification becomes a bottomless pit.
The sole "property" of matter with whose recognition philosophical materialism is bound up is the property of being an objective reality, of existing outside the mind.
Solipsism may be logically consistent with present Quantum Mechanics, Monism in the sense of Materialism is not.
Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss.
This - where we are now - is where a culture gets to, when it has chosen, for many years, banality over intelligence, the literal over the immaterial or complex, materialism over spirituality. This is the result of many years of disrespecting the intellectual project - of a collective acceptance of the idea that thinking and reasoning and reading deeply in difficult text and being respectful of history are somehow "wimpy" or secondary.
There is one advantage to having nothing, it never needs repair.
Dualism makes the problem insoluble; materialism denies the existence of any phenomenon to study, and hence of any problem.
A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.
Superstitions are all materialism, because they are all based on the consciousness of body, body, body. No spirit there. Spirit has no superstitions - it is beyond the vain desires of the body.
I question whether I want to be integrated into America as it stands now, with its complacency and materialism, its soullessness.
Marxism is not only the theory of socialism, it is an integral world outlook, a philosophical system, from which Marx’s proletarian socialism logically follows. This philosophical system is called dialectical materialism.