Quotes About Materialism

La práctica de la astronomía y la voluntad científica vacían el cielo cristiano como una bañera llena de agua residual. La física es una antimetafísica; permite una ontología material

Many women have married primarily for money and found themselves miserable. No amount of trinkets and possessions can fill a heart

Some people are so impoverished all they have is gold.

You can collect as many rings as you like, Telamon, but you'll never have enough. I think you'll be afraid for the rest of your life! - Pirra

Money is much more exciting than anything it buys.

Philosophy teaches a man that he can't take it with him; taxes teach him he can't leave it behind either.

Too much money is as demoralizing as too little, and there's no such thing as exactly enough.

We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it.

A woman's mink coat represents the sacrifice of a lot of little animals, including her husband.

Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets.

No os quepais en el cerebro lo que os puede caber en el bolsillo. Y al contrario, ¡no os quepais en el bolsillo lo que os puede caber en el cerebro!

Yet even if their advice were to work, what would be the result afterward in the unlikely event that one did turn into a slim, well-loved, powerful millionaire? Usually what happens is that the person finds himself back at square one, with a new list of wishes, just as dissatisfied as before. What would really satisfy people is not getting slim or rich, but feeling good about their lives. In the quest for happiness, partial solutions don't work.

In the heyday of its material splendor, our society is suffering from an astonishing variety of strange ills.

while personal income in the U.S. more than doubled between i 96o and the 19gos in constant dollars, the proportion of people saying they are very happy remained a steady 30 percent. One conclusion that the findings seem to justify is that beyond the threshold of poverty, additional resources do not appreciably improve the chances of being happy.

while humankind collectively has increased its material powers a thousandfold, it has not advanced very far in terms of improving the content of experience.

humankind collectively has increased its material powers a thousandfold, it has not advanced very far in terms of improving the content of experience.

Pero si una persona se toma unos momentos para reflexionar, el desencanto vuelve: tras cada éxito se ve con mayor claridad que el dinero, el poder, la posición social y las posesiones, por sí mismas, no añaden ni un ápice a la calidad de vida.

In the United States and the other technologically advanced societies, individualism and materialism have almost completely prevailed over allegiance to the community and to spiritual values.

Money, the root of all evil...but the cure for all sadness.

I spend my money...I don't know on what.

Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.

In deifying human things the idealists always end in the triumph of a brutal materialism. And this for a very simple reason: the divine evaporates and rises to its own country, heaven, while the brutal alone remains actually on earth.

At firs,money is like the wish-fulfilling Gem Later,it becomes indispensable In the end;you feel like a penniless beggar These are my thoughts and feelings on money So I renounced both wealth and goods

What do women want? Shoes.