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Materialism Definition

A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.
Adam Sedgwick

After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared.
Arthur Erickson

An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.
Charles Edwards

Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.
Andrei Platonov

Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould

It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.
H. L. Mencken

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

Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over.
Arthur Erickson

Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss.
Douglas Horton

More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and the Right.
Jack Schwartz

Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
Malcolm Muggeridge

That feeling of freedom, open highways of possibilities, has kind of been lost to materialism and marketing.
Sheryl Crow

The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism.
H. P. Blavatsky

This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the world.
Arthur Erickson

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