Quotes About Materialism

Necesito una pequeña buhardilla para dedicarme a escribir y soñar, no un coche impecable que me de prestigio y status entre los pendejos de clase media.

To be rich is not the end, but only a change, of worries.

If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Nothing is enough to the man for whom enough is too little.

Orang bodoh tidak puas dengan semua yang dimilikinya. Mereka menyusahkan hati dengan semua yang tidak dimilikinya.

If you want to make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

If man is nothing but a material mechanism and part of the world mechanism, then his choices of good and evil are mechanically determined, and he cannot be said to be an autonomous and responsible ethical being. Thus if materialism is to save moral responsibility and at the same time save determinism, it must represent man as partially determined (in his organic functions) and partially free (in his ethical capacity).

Don't ruin the things you have by wanting what you don't have, but realize that they too are things you once did wish for.

Nature's wealth is limited and easy to acquire; but the wealth of vain fancies recedes to an infinite distance.

I have a car but it's not important.

People spend time worrying about things they think they have to have and lose perception of what they do have. You can have all the money and material things you want. If you aren't here to enjoy them, what good do they do?

We might laugh at the notion of plastic tea sets in the jungle, but it is a time-honored ritual for Western travelers to collect preindustrial artifacts to use as home decorations...Possession of primitive artifacts suggests worldly knowledge, just as in the highland communities of Borneo an electronic wristwatch that plays "Happy Birthday" is the mark of a great traveler. Funny thing how travel can narrow the mind.

You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.

The real opposition is that between the ego-bound man, whose existence is structured by the principle of having, and the free man, who has overcome his egocentricity.

Some will buy things, which they don't really need, with money they don't have, for people they don't actually care for. In the end however, they find their financial assets and, even more so, their corporeal capacity, completely undermined. ( "Keeping up with the Joneses" )

The excessive speed of mundialization, the exacting demands of the God of consumerism and the to-and-fro swinging, from one period to another and from one domain to another, cause inner heartaches. People feel like individuals "with no sense of belonging" and characters "without qualities". ( "The church was no longer in the middle" )

For the genuine materialist there is no fundamental, but only a gradual, an "evolutionary" difference, between man and a pest, a noxious insect

Having much makes us greedy.

I got a funny feeling They got plastic in the afterlife

Some need diamonds some need love Some need cards some need luck Some need dollar bills lining their clothes all I need is, all I need is two white horses in a line

Many men want wealth--not a competence alone, but a five-story competence. Every thing subserves this; and religion they would like as a sort of lightning rod to their houses, to ward off, by and by, the bolts of divine wrath.