Definition of Materialism

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Definition of Materialism
	Materialism The doctrine of materialists; materialistic views and tenets. The tendency to give undue importance to material interests; devotion to the material nature and its wants. Material substances in the aggregate; matter. Related Definitions: Aggregate, And, Devotion, Doctrine, Give, Importance, In, Material, Materialistic, Matter, Nature, Of, Tendency, The, To, Undue

Materialism Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Materialism Translations

materialism in German is Materialismus
materialism in Swedish is materialism

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