Materialism Quotes

“To possess is to be possessed.”

“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.”

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

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

“Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.”

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

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

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

“When a man is proud of his wealth, he should think of the earth which will swallow it.”

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

“Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares.”

“The brain happens to be a meat machine.”

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

“You cannot come to unity and remain material.”

“If you would know what the Lord God thinks of money, you have only to look at those to whom he gives it.”

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

“I'm not a clothes-horse or a big spender.”

“Every time I have a feeling or a thought, I know that it's a piece of matter and energy that is inside of me.”

“Possessions, power and prestige are at best shadows of the real, fleeting and unsubstantial.”

“I have a lot of money and I'm very rich, but I'm not a materialistic person. I'm a people person.”