#material

She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel. ↗

— Florence Nightingale

#around #color #effect #feel #how

A lot of the stuff I am now seeing is edgy, raw kinda material. ↗

— Mickey Rourke

#edgy #i #i am #kinda #lot

Within the last three years the amount of classified materials has doubled to 15.6 million decisions to classify documents. ↗

— Hodding Carter

#classified #classify #decisions #documents #doubled

We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material. ↗

— J. T. Walsh

#material #materialists #metaphors #our #such

Time after time have nations, ay, and rich and strong nations, learned in the arts, been, and passed away to be forgotten, so that no memory of them remains. This is but one of several; for Time eats up the works of man. ↗

— H. Rider Haggard

#fallen-nations #futility #inevitability #knowledge #learning

Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book." (Acceptance speech, National Book Award 2010 (Nonfiction), November 17, 2010) ↗

— Patti Smith

#materialism #musicians #pure-awesome #technology #beauty

This is what’ll happen,” she said, “and it’s true, perfectly true. When you go out of here, all the particles that make you up will loosen and float apart, just like your daemons did. If you’ve seen people dying, you know what that looks like. But your daemons en’t just nothing now; they’re part of everything. All the atoms that were them, they’ve gone into the air and the wind and the trees and the earth and all the living things. They’ll never vanish. They’re just part of everything. And that’s exactly what’ll happen to you, I swear to you, I promise on my honor. You’ll drift apart, it’s true, but you’ll be out in the open, part of everything alive again. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#his-dark-materials #pullman #death

How good something is should never be determined by its cost, designer, origin, or its perceived value by others. ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#materialism #perception #quality #value #design

The things you own end up owning you. It's only after you lose everything that you're free to do anything. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#materialism #posessions #freedom

If something possesses no capacity for activity whatever, it is nothing; it may be wholly penetrated, but it cannot be touched. Therefore passivity and reaction are everywhere equal. ↗

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

#reaction #equality