#materialism

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

— Ashly Lorenzana

#experiences #life #materialism #money #spending

...if I try to make only enough money for my family' immediate needs, it may violate Scripture. ...Even though earning just enough to meet the needs of my family may seem nonmaterialistic, it's actually selfish when I could earn enough to care for others as well. ↗

— Randy Alcorn

#earning #enough #family #materialism #money

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

Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity. ↗

— George Eliot

#materialism #vanity #life

In poor Rosamond’s mind there was not room enough for luxuries to look small in. ↗

— George Eliot

#life

The materialist theory of history, that all politics and ethics are the expression of economics, is a very simple fallacy indeed. It consists simply of confusing the necessary conditions of life with the normal preoccupations of life, that are quite a different thing. It is like saying that because a man can only walk about on two legs, therefore he never walks about except to buy shoes and stockings. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#life

Needs multiply as they are met. Woe to the man who would live a disentangled life. Be on guard, my soul, of complicating your environment so that you have neither time nor room for growth! ↗

— Elisabeth Elliot

#materialism #life

Sophia sat in meditation on the riverbank when a student bent down to place two enormous pearls at her feet as a gift. She opened her eyes to see the pearls. She picked one up, but dropped it. It rolled down the hill upon which she was sitting and into the river. The student chased after it and looked all afternoon, diving, coming up for air, diving back down. “Sophia,” he asked. “Could you show me where it went in? I can’t find it.” “Right there,” she said throwing the other pearl in the river. ↗

— David W. Jones

#letting-go-of-stuff #materialism #wisdom #love