#materialism

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

#colleges #consequent #destructive #done #ignorance

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it. ↗

— Ellen Goodman

#life #materialism #society #truth #humor

Societies need self sacrificing ignorant crowd; Religions need fearful followers; Systems need obedient slaves; Corporate world needs compulsive consumers, and I NEED THE COURAGE TO RISE ABOVE THESE FOUR PARASITES. ↗

— Saurabh Sharma

#fear #inspiration #materialism #rat-race #socierty

I believe the defenders of intelligent design deserve our gratitude for challenging a scientific world view that owes some of the passion displayed by its adherents precisely to the fact that it is thought to liberate us from religion. That world view is ripe for displacement.... ↗

— Thomas Nagel

#evolution #id #intelligent-design #macroevolution #materialism

Action is the activity of the rational soul, which abhors irrationality and must combat it or be corrupted by it. When it sees the irrationality of others, it must seek to correct it, and can do this either by teaching or engaging in public affairs itself, correcting through its practice. And the purpose of action is to enable philosophy to continue, for if men are reduced to the material alone, they become no more than beasts. ↗

— Iain Pears

#body #civilization #continuance #mankind #materialism

I'd much rather buy an experience than something I can possess in the material world ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#experiences #life #materialism #money #spending

Why ask for your daily bread when you own the bakery? ↗

— Randy Alcorn

#faith #materialism #self-sufficiency #temptation #wealth

Like many another materialist, that is, he lied cleverly on the basis of insufficient knowledge, because the knowledge supplied seemed to his own particular intelligence inadmissible. ("The Wendigo") ↗

— Algernon Blackwood

#materialst #rational-thought #rationalists #rationality #intelligence

A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it. ↗

— Lionel Shriver

#materialism #want #yearning #jealousy

Nin knew how much humans loved money, riches, and material things—though he never really could understand why. The more technologically advanced the human species got, the more isolated they seemed to become, at the same time. It was alarming, how humans could spend entire lifetimes engaged in all kinds of activities, without getting any closer to knowing who they really were, inside. ↗

— Jess C. Scott

#cyberpunk #elven-charm #humankind #insightful #life