Quotes About Materialism

Prosperity is often the enemy of spiritual development.

Spiritually, yes, now many people knows Tibetans in spiritual field are very, very advanced but in material field is very, very backward.

The physical world is too good a gift to be reduced to an object lesson about 'spiritual things'.

God delights in providing His people with material gain and comfort, although prosperity can pose a threat to spiritual well-being.

Spiritual worldliness kills! It kills the soul! It kills the Church!

Our noblest purpose in life is to remember our spiritual nature in the face of suggestions that we are a material society.

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

So long as there's been black churches in the United States, there's been a relationship between spiritual well-being and material acquisition. This has always been the case.

Ordinary citizens are so accepting of what is going on, grumbling when their material interests were affected, but seemingly accepting the spiritual poverty so characteristic of today.

When it becomes above normal, material happiness will feel like misery.

Do not allow consumerism to dictate your spiritual practice. You need nothing more than your focused attention to gain enlightenment.

There is a spiritual hunger in the world today - and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer credit terms.

I'm enjoying the money, the big house, the cars; what ghetto kid wouldn't?

If you start to find that kind of luxury as a normal thing, you don't belong in the real world.

Le cose più preziose della vita non sono quelle che si comprano con il danaro

The ordinary objects of human endeavour – property, outward success, luxury – have always seemed to me contemptible.

in this materialistic age of ours the serious scientific workers are the only profoundly religious people

A free people, forgetting that it has a soul to be cared for, devotes all its energies to its material advancement. If it makes war, it is to subserve its commercial interests. The citizens copy after the State, and regard wealth, pomp, and luxury as the great goods of life. Such a nation creates wealth rapidly, and distributes it badly.

Las prímulas y los paisajes, explicó, tienen un grave defecto: son gratuitos. El amor a la Naturaleza no da quehacer a las fábricas.

He had allowed the advertisers to multiply his wants; he had learned to equate happiness with possessions, and prosperity with money to spend in a shop.

los hombres no son sólo meros compradores de los productos en serie producidos por los grandes trusts, sino que parecen incluso producidos por la omnipotencia de éstos, perdiendo su propia individuación.

Imagine the folly of allowing people to play elaborate games which do nothing whatever to increase consumption. It's

Familiarity breeds indifference. We have seen too much pure, bright color at Woolworth's to find it intrinsically transporting. And here we may note that, by its amazing capacity to give us too much of the best things, modern technology has tended to devaluate the traditional vision-inducing materials.

Crass," Dr Robert agreed, "but crass precisely because you're such inadequate materialists. Abstract materialism—that's what you profess. Whereas we make a point of being materialists concretely—materialistic on the wordless levels of seeing and touching and smelling, of tensed muscles and dirty hands. Abstract materialism is as bad as abstract idealism, it makes immediate spiritual experience almost impossible.