Quotes About Material

I maintain that the human mystery is incredibly demeaned by scientific reductionism, with its claim in promissory materialism to account eventually for all of the spiritual world in terms of patterns of neuronal activity. This belief must be classed as a superstition.... we have to recognize that we are spiritual beings with souls existing in a spiritual world as well as material beings with bodies and brains existing in a material world.

If we were to smooth out all the material in the Universe into a uniform sea of atoms we would see just how little of anything there is. There would be little more than about 1 atom in every cubic metre of space. No laboratory on Earth could produce an artificial vacuum that was anywhere near as empty as that. The best vacuum achievable today contains approximately 1000 billion atoms in a cubic metre.

There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts and truths possess educational value in and of themselves is the reason why traditional education reduced the material of education so largely to a diet of predigested materials.

If the president is failing to disclose material facts with regard to legislation being presented to the Congress on a question as important as war and peace, I think it does impair the level of trust that the House and the Senate have for this administration.

A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.

The greatest realities are physical and economic, all the subtleties of life come afterward.

Is it not true that for every person the course of life is along the line of least resistance, and that in this the movement of humanity is like the movement of material bodies?

It is not the material which gives life form but the space between the material that gives life form.

For example, whereas the natural sciences are concerned with various specific kinds of material substances Ã¢â'¬â€œ stone, water, trees, fish, stars, and so on Ã¢â'¬â€œ metaphysics is concerned with questions such as what it is to be a substance of any kind in the first place. (Is a substance a mere bundle of attributes, or a substratum in which attributes inhere? Are material substances the only possible sort? And so on.) Similarly, the natural sciences are concerned with

First, the intellect abstracts from the individualizing features of concrete material things, but still considers them in terms of the sensible characteristics that they have in common.

That study confirmed Keller's point: that a reusable grocery bag made of non-woven polypropylene plastic would have to be used at least eleven times to have a lower carbon footprint than using disposable single-use grocery bags. There were other comparisons in the study, too: Using a paper bag three times would do the trick, while it would take 131 trips to the market with a cotton bag to have a lower carbon footprint - which meant the material used for a reusable bag was critical.

To be clear: the West's souring mood is about the psychology of dashed expectations rather than the decline in material comforts.

no species, ours included, possesses a purpose beyond the imperatives created by its genetic history. Species may have vast potential for material and mental progress but they lack any immanent purpose or guidance from agents beyond their immediate environment or even an evolutionary goal toward which their molecular architecture automatically steers them.

Reminiscences is quoted as a major source of stock trading learning material for experienced and new traders by many of the traders who Schwager interviewed. The book is considered an investment classic.

Silk--that's what I want rubbing against me. I feel so woolen all the time.

It seemed that everyone was shouting too loudly and moving too quickly. This sensation was accompanied by nausea, and she had had the impression that something absolutely material, which had been present around her and around everyone and everything forever, but imperceptible, was breaking down the outlines of persons and things and revealing itself.

And so, in spite of his virtues, he was a frivolous, superficial man, an animal organism who dripped sweat and fluids and left behind, like the residue of a careless pleasure, living material conceived, nourished, shaped within female bellies.

I think it's outrageous if a historian has a 'leading thought' because it means they will select their material according to their thesis

A person's life is either meaningful or material for being a fool and in the middle of the two positions it's only a vacuum.

House is usually big and is made up of largely building materials like brick, mortar and concrete; Home is normally small and is made up of only love which has all power & strength to bond together all members to make them one family complete.

Material dust in mind acts like only rust for it corrodes the thinking prowess of a person who then can't even identity the people worth to own trust.

Ordinary people can be easily tempted with the property assets, material objects and gold but the visionary person can be only attracted with the good deeds and wise words told by a hearty soul.

People have to pay for the extra baggage on the trains, but there is no such charges levied for those who carry abundance luggage of material luxury on the life's journey.

The brain of a man works at a good speed in freedom, the better in seclusion and the best when not having any material attraction; but, in addition to all, great only after staying away from the woman.