Quotes About Materialism

Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.

Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.

Money There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

Love people, not things; use things, not people.

All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy.

The world is burning in the fire of desire, in greed, arrogance and excessive ego.

You will receive everything you need when you stop asking for what you do not need

These philosophers, then, whom we see not undeservedly exalted above the rest in fame and glory, have seen that no material body is God, and therefore they have transcended all bodies in seeking for God.

For there is an attractiveness in beautiful bodies, in gold and silver, and all things; and in bodily touch, sympathy hath much influence, and each other sense hath his proper object answerably tempered.

For if we were beasts, we should love the fleshly and sensual life, and this would be our sufficient good; and when it was well with us in respect of it, we should seek nothing beyond.

Be not anxious about what you have, but about what you are.

Für viele Waren gibt es jetzt Plastikverpackungen; das Menschenfleisch aber wird immer noch in Zeitungspapier verpackt verkauft.

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.

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.

Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity.

Materialistic scientists have not been able to produce any convincing evidence that consciousness is a product of the neurophysiological processes in the brain.

Very few people, including most scientists, realize that we have absolutely no proof that consciousness is actually produced by the brain and not even a remote notion of how something like that could possibly happen. In spite of it, this basic metaphysical assumption remains one of the leading myths of Western materialistic science and has a profound influence on our entire society.

In view of the escalating global crisis brought about by the materialistic orientation of Western technological civilization, it has become obvious that we are paying a great price for having denied and rejected spirituality. We have banned a force that nourishes, empowers, and gives meaning to human existence from our lives.

In a culture where profit has become the true God, self-sacrifice can seem incomprehensible rather than noble.

Two suitcases, in one the wardrobe, the earthly essentials, in the other- manuscripts, the spiritual supplies, then you are at home everywhere-Zweig GW Tagebuecher p. 383

ever since he discovered that all his millions could not bring him back his wife, he has learned to despise money.

Es el asombro eterno que en cada rincón de la Tierra, siente todo hijo de la naturaleza ante los hijos de la cultura, para quienes un puñado de metal amarillo tiene más valía que todos los logros técnicos y espirituales.

To free oneself of ambitions and all forms of avarice: "Thirst for glory is the most futile of all, the most valueless and bogus currency known to man.