Quotes About Materialism

Education! Is it education to teach the young that their chances of happiness depend on being richer than their neighbors? Yet that is what it all tends to. Get on! - be successful!

Heap up great wealth in your house, if you wish, and live as a tyrant, but, if the enjoyment of these things be lacking, I would not buy the rest for the shadow of smoke as against happiness.

Peace is only possible if men cease to place their happiness in the possession of things which cannot be shared.

The "pursuit of happiness" is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Riches may not bring happiness, but neither does poverty.

Money doesn't make you happy, but it gives a zone of comfort around you.

After initial needs are met—enough food, shelter, comfort—there is no correlation between money and happiness. That's a difficult thing for people to believe.

Portable property is happiness in a pocketbook.

Money is human happiness in the abstract he then who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

It turns out that what money buys has rapidly diminishing emotional returns ... As long as we're not destitute, happiness depends less on getting what we want than appreciating what we already have.

Das Glück ist nicht in den Dingen, die wir besitzen, sondern in den Dingen, die zu besitzen wir glauben.

The more material we lose, the less we have. The less we have, the more we win.

As much longing for worldly happiness (of 5 senses) there is, that much less is the spiritual development.

What had he ever wanted that he could not buy? And if that wasn't riches he didn't know what was.

Possessions and positions may promote our happiness but cannot create it. Happiness is a state created by self through the realization of how the self is important to the creator.

I Wanna Be Rich Enough to Realize That I Can't Buy Happiness.

Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.

If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul.

Wealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.

Never before in our country's history has a generation been so empowered, so wealthy, so privileged - and yet so empty.

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

The tragedy of human history is decreasing happiness in the midst of increasing comforts.

Never in the history of the world have so many people been so rich; never in the history of the world have so many of those same people felt themselves so poor.

pity them. Matthew 19:24.