Quotes About Materialism

A lot of our modern lifestyle is based on having things. Jesus rejected the idea that things should have a primary place in our lives. Other than the clothes on his back and the sandals on his feet, he had nothing. And his teachings constantly affirmed that people were primary and things were secondary.

The change from herbalism to commercial drugs is not founded upon "science," but upon a complex commercial and political plaform supporting a materialistic vision of human life. There is no proof that "herbs do not work." They are simply ignored and ridiculed. Studies are invented, not to try to show that they work, but designed to demonstrate that they do not.

Incapaces de encontrar la felicidad en nosotros mismos, la buscamos desesperadamente en objetos, en experiencias, en maneras de pensar o de comportarse cada vez más extrañas. En pocas palabras: nos alejamos de la felicidad buscándola donde no existe.

Tant de choses essentielles au bonheur n'ont rien à voir avec des transactions économiques.

Les conversations ordinaires sont des « échos d'échos », regrettait l'ermite Patrul Rinpoché. Il suffit d'allumer la télévision ou de se rendre à une soirée mondaine pour être englouti par un déluge de paroles qui non seulement sont inutiles mais exacerbent la convoitise, le ressentiment, la vanité...

Abstain from luxuries, for those who live luxurious lives are no servants of God.' HADITH OF AHMAD IBN HANBAL.

In the last analysis, phenomenology is neither a materialism nor a philosophy of mind. It's proper work is to unveil the pre-theoretical layer on which both of these idealizations find their relative justification and are gone beyond.

Material goods have gained an increasing and finally inexorable power over the lives of men as at no previous period in history.

The glitz and glamour of the megapolis and modern times had become the golden calves that were being worshipped throughout the planet.

the money that was scattered around me like an uninteresting garnish.

Marx was an astronomer of history, not an astrologer.

A street without trees is a street only for the sick-minded people whose god is nothing but money!

I am against the florists and floristry! Let the flowers not be the toys of our pleasures!

That wretched alchemist called money can turn a man's heart into a stone!

West is too materialist; East is too spiritual; North is too cold; South is too loose!

Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable.

The more we have the less we own.

But many people want to look upon God with the eyes with which they look upon a cow; they want to love God the way they love a cow that you love because it gives you milk and cheese. This is how people behave who want to love God because of external wealth or inner comfort; but they do not love God properly: rather, they love their self interest.

the man who sat naked in his tub said to Alexander the Great, who ruled the whole world: 'I am a greater lord than you are, for I have spurned more than you have seized. What you think it is a great thing to possess, is too trivial for me to scorn.

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

Money could buy her slippers. Only crazy would get her a man.

Moi je vole, je plane, tandis qu'il y a pleins de gens qui sont morts de l'interieur. […] L'argent qu'ils gagnent, ils le dépensent dans une télévision neuve, alors que l'ancienne marche encore, dans une nouvelle voiture, parce que la précédente est trop vielle, ou dans des vacances pour se distraire et oublier cet affreux boulot qu'ils sont obligés de faire parce qu'ils ont besoin de cet argent…

Riches cover a multitude of woes.

I am too rich already, for my eyes mint gold. - Coloured Money