#materialist

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

A major fault, for example, is the fact that, along with the materialist principle, Darwin introduced into his theory of evolution reactionary Malthusian ideas. ↗

— Trofim Lysenko

#darwin #evolution #example #fact #fault

The classics of Marxism, while fully appreciating the significance of the Darwinian theory, pointed out the errors of which Darwin was guilty. Darwin's theory, though unquestionably materialist in its main features, is not free from some serious errors. ↗

— Trofim Lysenko

#classics #darwin #darwinian #darwinian theory #errors

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

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

John Hodgson can describe Richard Dawkins's atheism as vacuous only because 'atheist' is a term which non-believers use purely as a polemical convenience when we have to define concisely what we don't believe [...]. No atheist is principally that. What we'd want to call ourselves is humanist or materialist, or biologist or linguist, or for that matter socialist, because one or more of these, or something else again, is what we do and think and are. We have 'purely and simply finished with God', to adapt a phrase of Engels's. ↗

— David Craig

#atheists #biologists #friedrich-engels #god #humanists

One of the experts bought his first piece at the age of four, so they did start very young, most of them. They did it out of genuine interest but today's kids are much more materialistic and there's a danger, I suppose, that they might just be out to make dosh. ↗

— Michael Aspel

#bought #danger #did #experts #first

When we analyze this war in a materialistic way and ask when is it going to end and who will be the winner and the loser, it means that we do not see the endgame. ↗

— Bashar al-Assad

#ask #end #endgame #going #loser

Darwinism as presented by Darwin contradicted idealistic philosophy, and this contradiction grew deeper with the development of its materialist teaching. ↗

— Trofim Lysenko

#contradiction #darwin #darwinism #deeper #development