Quotes about Materialism

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The reality of loving God is loving him like he's a Superhero who actually saved you from stuff rather than a Santa Clau — Criss Jami, Killosophy
About once or twice every month I engage in public debates with those whose pressing need it is to woo and to win the ap — Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir
Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still payin — Ellen Goodman
Action is the activity of the rational soul, which abhors irrationality and must combat it or be corrupted by it. When i — Iain Pears, The Dream of Scipio
True beauty is measured by the number of pearls within you, not those around your neck. — Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
....I am inclined to think that these muscles and bones of mine would have gone off long ago to Megara or Boeotia—by the — Plato, Phaedo
It’s the poet we love in Caeiro, not the philosopher. What we really get from these poems is a childlike sense of life, — Álvaro de Campos
Manlius ... took care in his invitations, actively sought to exclude from his circle crude and vulgar men like Caius Val — Iain Pears, The Dream of Scipio
Eyes blinded by the fog of thingscannot see truth.Ears deafened by the din of thingscannot hear truth.Brains bewildered — Harold Bell Wright, The Uncrowned King
Nin knew how much humans loved money, riches, and material things—though he never really could understand why. The more — Jess C. Scott, The Other Side of Life
But I do know we’re deficient in some way. We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don’t satisfy us. The l — Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
If money’s the god people worship, I’d rather go worship the devil instead. — Jess C. Scott, Rockstar
COMING FORTH INTO THE LIGHTI was born the dayI thought:What is?What was?AndWhat if?I was transformed the dayMy ego shatt — Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
It is wiser to love who you are than what you want. — Rasheed Ogunlaru
Having something is not always better than not having it. — Beth Kempton, Freedom Seeker: Live More. Worry Less. Do What You Love.
The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word "luxury. — Alain de Botton
The successful cannot be unhappy -- it was a contradiction in terms. — Barry Unsworth, Sacred Hunger
I think at the heart of so much restlessness of the day is a spiritual vacuum. There is a yearning for meaningful lives, — Bill Moyes
Our lives are mere flashes of light in an infinitely empty universe. In 12 years of education the most important lesson — Dominic Owen Mallary
Shapeshifting requires the ability to transcend your attachments, in particular your ego attachments to identity and who — Zeena Schreck