Quotes About Materialism

I have always been interested in garbage: What it says about us. What in there embarrasses us, and what we can't bear to part with. Where it goes and how much of it there is. How it endures. What it might be like to work with it every day.

I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari.

There are shoes in my closet that people would go crazy over. That's where my giving back comes in. I might never wear these shoes, but some kids would go crazy for them.

I bought my parents a house. Then I bought myself a Rolex. My brother forced me to do it, but I'm glad he did.

To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.

I never think in terms of gold, currency, diamonds. I'm not clever enough for that.

A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.

For me, life is not about gold taps and marble all over the place.

My gold, my money couldn't stop cancer from appearing on my body. If they can't save me, then I don't need them.

Gold all is not that doth golden seem.

If you view life as a gold rush, you're going to end up worshiping a golden calf. And when you call for help, and that golden calf can't respond, you go under.

If I'm not driving a Ferrari or a Lambo, I'm not gonna talk about it in my raps.

I don't have a desire for material things. As long as I'm happy, I'm good, man.

Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.

He who possesseth little is so much the less possessed. Blessed be moderate poverty!

the way the Americans strive for gold; and their breathless haste in working - the true vice of the new world.

Our age, as much as it speaks of economics, is in fact a squanderer: it squanders the most precious thing there is, the spirit.

how well Stoicism hides what one does not possess!);

Some change their philosophy of life with every book they read: one book sells them on Freud, the next on Marx; materialists one year, idealists the next; cynics for another period, and Eberals for still another. They have their quivers full of arrows but no fixed target. As no game makes the hunter tired of the sport, so the want of destiny makes the mind bored with life.

Judas took the money back to the temple priests. So is it always. When we give up our Lord for any earthly thing sooner or later it disgusts us; we no longer wanted it.

The more rich a soul is on the inside, the less need it has of luxuries on the outside.

His longterm aspirations were not a subject upon which he allowed himself to dwell. Not because they were in any way bad or bizarre, but because he had come to realize he didn't have any. Nothing specific anyway. He'd never pictured himself as anything in particular. Just a situation where he made enough money doing something... anything... enough to have whatever he wanted. A nice new Dodge pickup. A boat or maybe a little house someplace. The kind of things people wanted.

I remember opening my dad's closet and there were, like, 40 suits, every color of the rainbow, plaid and winter and summer. He had two jewelry boxes full of watches and lighters and cuff links. And just... he was that guy. He was probably unfulfilled in his life in many ways.

I have all these nice clothes that I've bought over the years, and I never wear anything because, when you have a toddler, everything gets spilled, and they wipe their boogers on you, whatever. You end up shifting a little bit, and your values shift a bit, too. I don't care about that as much as I used to.