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As there is no worldly gain without some loss so there is no worldly loss without some gain.
- Quarius
Materialism Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Materialism

1.
The best things in life aren't things.
Buchwald, Art

2.
The strongest argument for the un-materialistic character of American life is the fact that we tolerate conditions that are, from a negative point of view, intolerable. What the foreigner finds most objectionable in American life is its lack of basic comfort. No nation with any sense of material well-being would endure the food we eat, the cramped apartments we live in, the noise, the traffic, the crowded subways and buses. American life, in large cities, is a perpetual assault on the senses and the nerves; it is out of asceticism, out of unworldliness, precisely, that we bear it.
Mccarthy, Mary

3.
As there is no worldly gain without some loss so there is no worldly loss without some gain.
Quarius

4.
Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.
Hesiod

5.
Oh, what a void there is in things.
Persius

6.
Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss.
Horton, Doug

7.
There is one advantage to having nothing, it never needs repair.
Clark, Frank A.

8.
When we try in good faith to believe in materialism, in the exclusive reality of the physical, we are asking our selves to step aside; we are disavowing the very realm where we exist and where all things precious are kept -- the realm of emotion and conscience, of memory and intention and sensation.
Updike, John

9.
Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
Amiel, Henri Frederic

10.
The essence of worldliness is exclusion of God.
Jacobsen, Henry

11.
The organization controlling the material equipment of our everyday life is such that what in itself would enable us to construct it richly plunges us instead into a poverty of abundance, making alienation all the more intolerable as each convenience promises liberation and turns out to be only one more burden. We are condemned to slavery to the means of liberation.
Vaneigem, Raoul

12.
Production and consumption are the nipples of modern society. Thus suckled, humanity grows in strength and beauty; rising standard of living, all modern conveniences, distractions of all kinds, culture for all, the comfort of your dreams.
Vaneigem, Raoul

13.
Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
Gandhi, Mahatma

14.
We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.
Fromm, Erich

15.
Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes.
Goldsmith, Oliver

16.
Junk is something you keep for years and then throw out two weeks before you need it.

17.
Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the validity of philosophic concepts for himself, or to form what, for lack of a better phrase, I might call the wise and tragic sense of life.

18.
Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still entangled with the desire for ownership.
Forster, Edward M.

19.
It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.
Russell, Bertrand

20.
The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment.
Marcuse, Herbert

21.
We are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to expand.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.
Somebody said to me, But the Beatles were anti-materialistic. That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, Now, let's write a swimming pool.
Mccartney, Paul

23.
Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit.
Debord, Guy

24.
It all depends on whether you have things, or they have you.
Cook, Robert A.

25.
Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
Keynes, John Maynard

26.
The son will run away from the family not at eighteen but at twelve, emancipated by his gluttonous precocity; he will fly not to seek heroic adventures, not to deliver a beautiful prisoner from a tower, not to immortalize a garret with sublime thoughts, but to found a business, to enrich himself and to compete with his infamous papa.
Baudelaire, Charles

27.
Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.
Russell, Bertrand


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