Materialism Quotes

“To be a real man is to be unattached—not to be hustled by things, not to be owned by them, not to be afraid of them.”

“For the materialist, the final answer to every 'why' question is 'because that's the way the atoms happened to rearrange themselves.'”

“To put it crudely but graphically, the brain is a computer made of meat.”

“It is a better thing to save souls for the Lord than to save treasures.”

“To possess is to be possessed.”

“Darwinism is based on an a priori commitment to materialism, not on a philosophically neutral assessment of the evidence.”

“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.”

“Worldly-mindedness is the plague of the church.”

“The world is a museum of objects, a history of things.”

“Remember, you can't take it with you.”

“The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.”

“I turned my coat on the day I realized it was lined with mink.”

“The brain happens to be a meat machine.”

“You are not your job, you're not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet.”

“The best things in life aren't things.”

“It was our belief that the love of possessions is a weakness to be overcome.”

“He was a man who knew what he wanted, and he usually got it, if it was for sale.”

“The things you own end up owning you.”

“Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened.”

“He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.”