Quotes About Material

Even in his most artificial creations, nature is the material upon which man has to work.

The past lies hidden beyond the mind's realm and reach, in some material object (in the sensation that material object gives us). And it depends entirely on chance whether or not we encounter that object before we die.

Never get into family fights over material things; give them up willingly, and your moral standing will increase in proportion.

My idea of socialism is no state monopoly. There should be stress on the subjectivity of the human being. You need good material conditions, a high level of culture, much freedom and friendship. And it won't come today or tomorrow. It's a long and winding road

Humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit. Without doubt, these dreamers do not deserve wealth, because they do not desire it. Even so, a well-organized society should assure to such workers the efficient means of accomplishing their task, in a life freed from material care and freely consecrated to research.

Our lives are defined by fear from the very time we are born to the time we bid adieu to this material world.

Intellectual freedom depends upon material things.

Material esteem is not self esteem. One allows A person to feel good because of earthly possessions. The other allows a person to feel good because of pure Self acceptance without earthly possessions.

Don't build your identity on material things, you are greater than what you have.

News is like food: it is the cooking and serving that makes it acceptable, not the material itself

Once freedom is equated with a certain material standard of living, confiscation becomes the path to liberation

Hey baby, feel my sweater. You feel that? That's boyfriend material.

I always thought the more fucked-up childhood you have, the better artist you get, because you have more material to work with. I don't think anyone does anything from happiness. Happiness is such a good state, it doesn't need to be creative.

Cuando los seres humanos conseguimos integrar las cuatro perspectivas, podemos observar tanto aquellas realidades superficiales, y que están en el mundo de la materia, el tiempo y el espacio, como aquellas otras más profundas que están en el mundo de lo espiritual, lo infinito y eterno.

La felicidad, el verdadero gozo viene del Ser, no del tener. La felicidad es el resultado de conectar con eso que somos y descubrir que nuestra esencia no es material sino espiritual, y que por consiguiente es también inmortal. Por eso no solo tenemos Vida, sino que, y esto es lo esencial, también somos Vida.

La integración de los dos hemisferios supera las limitaciones con las que opera el hemisferio izquierdo y puede traer al mundo de la materia las posibilidades que solo está viendo el hemisferio derecho, que es el que conecta con el mundo del espíritu.

I always write a draft version of the novel in which I try to develop, not the story, not the plot, but the possibilities of the plot. I write without thinking much, trying to overcome all kinds of self-criticism, without stopping, without giving any consideration to the style or structure of the novel, only putting down on paper everything that can be used as raw material, very crude material for later development in the story.

Prospero is man-the-artist, or man-the-scholar: Ariel and Caliban represent his ethereal and material selves—the one airy, imaginative, and swift; the second earthy, gross, and appetitive.

It's often the material things that provide the essence of memory.

The phrase the executed God reminds us that the God who was bound up with the life of Jesus of Nazareth was exposed to material conditions so malignant that he was executed. Jesus did not die accidentally. He

Please rehearse new material," Brian's telegram said. They chose to interpret this as "please write new material" and, in this instant, the Lennon-McCartney songwriting partnership was effectively reborn.

Let us remember, for the progressive, historical progress is said to be a process of never-ending cultural and societal adjustments intended to address the unique circumstances of the time, the ultimate goal of which is economic egalitarianism and the material liberation of "the masses.

In its latest audit of the federal government, the GAO concluded there are significant and material weaknesses in the accounting performed at all levels of the federal government.

Once you can consistently make people laugh, it's essential to target your material so you don't waste precious time preparing the wrong material for the wrong performer, to be delivered to the wrong audience, for the wrong purpose. This is true for all forms of humor writing.