Quotes About Materialism

Those who prize freedom only for the material benefits it offers have never kept it for long.

I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things.

A kiss on the hand may be quite continental, But Diamonds are a girl's best friend.

I have always felt a gift diamond shines so much better than one you buy for yourself.

A house is just a place to keep your stuff while you go out and get more stuff.

I don't think I'll ever be a real boat reporter. My Rolex isn't big enough.

A rich man with his power only worships his wealth...but a poor man with his faith believes in GOD

Sometimes, when we lack in completeness we often seek relationships, sex, or material things to complete us...seek to be complete and never date and fall into a relationship just to fill a void in your life.

Whatever we treasure for ourselves separates us from others; our possessions are our limitations.

To spend several days in a friend's house and hunger for something to read, while you are treading on costly carpets, and sitting upon luxurious chairs and sleeping upon down, is as if one were bribing your body for the sake of cheating your mind

A Big Mac - the communion wafer of consumption

We buy our way out of jail but we can't buy freedom, We buy a lot of clothes when we don't really need them, Things we buy to cover up what's inside.

Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions

Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special! How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to us by cola, fast food, and beer...Who'd have ever guessed that product consumption, popular entertainment, and spirituality would mix so harmoniously?

Hoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop.

Sometimes people are ashamed to talk about these things, but I know so many people who would never throw away their old shitty T-shirts or pullovers that are falling apart because of the comfort they get from those clothes. Everybody is vulnerable.

Quien solo ve en el mar su superficie, se está perdiendo los secretos y las posibilidades que encierran sus profundidades. Quien solo ve el mundo de lo material, de lo que tiene forma, se pierde el fondo, el mundo de los espiritual y que encierra en sí todas las infinitas formas.

Si el hemisferio dominante es el izquierdo, tendremos cierto desinterés por las cosas del espíritu y nuestra perspectiva será en exceso materialista. Si el hemisferio derecho es el dominante, tendremos a desinteresarnos por las cosas de la materia y a buscar el alejamiento del mundo.

El materialismo, nuestro interés exclusivo en lo que es accesible a la razón y que se enmarca en las dimensiones del espacio y del tiempo, nos ha vuelto ciegos a aquello que las supera y que solo es accesible a la intuición y a la imaginación.

Siento que también hay algo en mí que hace una mueca de resignación, que algo en mí se crispa contra Nada, porque Dios y Destino y Materialismo Dialéctico son meros slogans que lanzaron Abraham y Spengler y Marx, no precisamente para formarnos o transformarnos o conformarnos, sino para hacernos olvidar de las únicas metas razonables y obligatorias, verbigracia el suicidio o la locura.

Don't accumulate possessions, accumulate experiences or vice versa–

If your deepest feelings are reserved for something other than Almighty God, then that something other is an emotional idol... if you get more excited about material things than the simple yet profound fact that your sin was nailed to the cross by the sinless Son of God, then you're bowing down to Tammuz.

It's like Thomas Aquinas told Charlemagne in an overpriced bistro in Nice: "You never realize how much shit you have until you have to move it all.