#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

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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

I think the materialist conception of history is valid. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#history #i #i think #materialist #think

The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels. ↗

— Malcolm De Chazal

#his #idealist #materialist #tiptoe #walks

When an American heiress wants to buy a man, she at once crosses the Atlantic. The only really materialistic people I have ever met have been Europeans. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

#atlantic #been #buy #crosses #europeans

Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society. ↗

— Malcolm Muggeridge

#materialistic #mysticism #only #possible #religion

Spirituality does two things for you. One, you are forced to become more selfless, two, you trust to providence. The opposite of a spiritual man is a materialist. If I was a materialist I would be making lots of money doing endorsements, doing cricket commentary. I have no interest in that. ↗

— Imran Khan

#commentary #cricket #does #doing #endorsements

There must be a world revolution which puts an end to all materialistic conditions hindering woman from performing her natural role in life and driving her to carry out man's duties in order to be equal in rights. ↗

— Muammar al-Gaddafi

#conditions #driving #duties #end #equal

We're not as materialistic and income-tax conscious as we think. At the moment our superstitions are tucked away, but come out sometimes in strange ways sex crimes, black masses. ↗

— Terence Fisher

#black #come #conscious #crimes #masses