#materialist

The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open. ↗

— John Berger

#confines #difficulty #dog #dreams #great

Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power. ↗

— Joan Didion

#because #difficult #europeans #guilty #materialistic

Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#convinced #die #existence #explanations #friends

The materialistic point of view in psychology can claim, at best, only the value of an heuristic hypothesis. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

#claim #heuristic #hypothesis #materialistic #only

According to materialistic science, any memory requires a material substrate, such as the neuronal network in the brain or the DNA molecules of the genes. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#any #brain #dna #genes #material

Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#activity #biological #challenges #conscious #death

I noted that people are happy here in India. When I went back home, people had everything in the materialistic sense and were surrounded with abundance, but they were not happy. ↗

— Goldie Hawn

#back #everything #had #happy #here

You know when you eat too many sweets and get diabetes? Paparazzi are the diabetes of materialistic culture. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#diabetes #eat #get #know #many

If I'm a lush at anything, it's food and drink. I'm not materialistic in any way, but I value food. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#anything #drink #food #i #lush

Talking about a materialistic thing, I get about 13 times more royalties from Europe than I do from America. ↗

— Elliott Carter

#america #europe #get #i #i do