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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.

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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

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

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

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

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

Materialism Translations

materialism in German is Materialismus
materialism in Swedish is materialism


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