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• Life is called Samsara - it is the result of the conflicting forces acting upon us. Materialism says, "The voice of freedom is a delusion." Idealism says, "The voice that tells of bondage is but a dream." Vedanta says, "We are free and not free at the same time." That means that we are never free on the earthly plane, but ever free on the spiritual side. The Self is beyond both freedom and bondage. We are Brahman, we are immortal knowledge beyond the senses, we are Bliss Absolute.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Dream, Spiritual, Mean

  Swami Vivekananda (1955). “Complete Works”

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• Pay no attention to pop culture, for it is what poisons our minds and divides our children. Materialism promotes negative values and egotism. Eliminate all of it. It is the plague of Big Business.

  Suzy Kassem

  Children, Mind, Pay

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• It becomes necessary to learn how to clear the mind of all clouds, to free it of all useless ballast and debris by dismissing the burden of too much concern with material things.

  Indra Devi

  Clouds, Mind, Useless

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• We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfill many of its extravagant promises of health and life, in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated just-so stories, because we have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism... We cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door.

  Richard Lewontin

  Commitment, Doors, Feet

  "Billions and Billions of Demons" by Richard C. Lewontin, www.nybooks.com. January 9, 1997.

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• That intense faith in another world, that intense hatred for this world, that intense power of renunciation, that intense faith in God, that intense faith in the immortal soul, is in you. I challenge anyone to give it up. You cannot. You may try to impose upon me by becoming materialists, by talking materialism for a few months, but I know what you are; if I take you by the hand, back you come as good theists as ever were born. How can you change your nature?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Hands, Talking, Giving

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• Charity is great, but the moment you say it is all, you run the risk of running into materialism.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Running, Risk, Charity

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1643, Manonmani Publishers

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• The son will run away from the family not at eighteen but at twelve, emancipated by his gluttonous precocity; he will fly not to seek heroic adventures, not to deliver a beautiful prisoner from a tower, not to immortalize a garret with sublime thoughts, but to found a business, to enrich himself and to compete with his infamous papa.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Beautiful, Running, Adventure

  Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.57, Courier Corporation

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• Dialectical materialism works like cocaine, let's say. If you sniff it once or twice, it may not change your life. If you use it day after day, though, it will make you into an addict, a different man.

  Nicolae Ceausescu

  Men, Different, Use

  "Red Horizons: Chronicles of a Communist Spy Chief". Book by Ion Mihai Pacepa, p. 25, 1987.

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• Some say that you should not want money at all because the desire for money is materialistic and not Spiritual. But we want you to remember that you are here in this very physical world where Spirit has materialized. You cannot separate yourself from the aspect of yourself that is Spiritual, and while you are here in these bodies you cannot separate yourselves from that which is physical or material. All of the magnificent things of a physical nature that are surrounding you are Spiritual in nature.

  Esther Hicks

  Spiritual, Desire, World

  Esther Hicks, Jerry Hicks (2010). “Money, and the Law of Attraction: Learning to Attract Wealth, Health, and Happiness: Easyread Large Edition”, p.145, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• In L.A. like there's a lot of like materialism and, you know, people who think they're better than each other because of the clothes they wear or how they dress and in Oakland it's not like that.

  Kreayshawn

  Thinking, Oakland, Clothes

  "Kreayshawn: Controversial Rapper Talks Back". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. October 26, 2011.

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• Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.

  Mwai Kibaki

  Leadership, Power, Opportunity

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• A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.

  Adam Sedgwick

  Philosophy, Cold, Tendencies

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• Purposeless activity may be a phase of death.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Greed, Phases, May

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• democracy always makes for materialism, because the only kind of equality that you can guarantee to a whole people is, broadly speaking, physical.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  People, Democracy, Guarantees

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• The Rulers of Russia, then, are Jewish Politicians, and they are applying to the world the doctrine of Karl Marx (Mordecai). Marx, was a clear and lucid Talmudist...full of that old Hebrew (sic) materialism which ever dreams of a paradise on earth and always rejects the hope held out of the chance of a Garden of Eden after Death.

  Bernard Lazare

  Dream, Garden, Russia

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• The ontology of materialism rested upon the illusion that the kind of existence, the direct "actuality" of the world around us, can be extrapolated into the atomic range. This extrapolation is impossible, however.

  Werner Heisenberg

  World, Ontology, Impossible

  Werner Heisenberg (1962). “Physics and philosophy: the revolution in modern science”, Harpercollins College Div

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• The two men who have done the greatest harm to the world are Christ and Columbus. Christ taught us guilt and sacrifice, to live only in the other world, and Columbus discovered America and materialism.

  Anais Nin

  Sacrifice, Men, Other Worlds

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• Materialism is the recognition of "objects in themselves", or outside the mind; ideas and sensations are copies of images of those objects.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Ideas, Mind, Recognition

  "Materialism and Empirio-criticism: Critical Comments on a Reactionary Philosophy (1908)". Book by Vladimir Lenin. Introduction. Collected Works, Volume 14, www.marxists.org.

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• As an explanation of the world materialism has a sort of insane simplicity. It has the quality of a madman's arguments; we have at once the sense of it covering everything and the sense of it leaving everything out.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Simplicity, Leaving, Insane

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• A dreaded society is not a civilized society. The most progressive and powerful society in the civilized sense, is a society which has recognized its ethos, and come to terms with the past and the present, with religion and science. With modernism and mysticism, with materialism and spirituality; a society free of tension, a society rich in culture. Such a society cannot come with hocus-pocus formulas and with fraud. It has to flow from the depth of a divine search.

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

  Powerful, Past, Ethos

  "My Dearest Daughter: A letter from the Death Cell". Book by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, p. 15, 2007.

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• Materialism is in fact no protection. Those who seek it in that hope (they are not a negligible class) will be disappointed. The thing you fear is impossible. Well and good. Can you therefore cease to fear it? Not here and now. And what then? If you must see ghosts, it is better not to disbelieve in them.

  C. S. Lewis

  Class, Facts, Impossible

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “That Hideous Strength”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

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• Science has rolled its war wagons over the crushed myths of so many religious beliefs. It has marshaled its mechanics to explain the motions of the sun, moon, and stars. It has mapped the heavens, leaving no place for gods to live.

  Walker Evans

  Religious, Stars, War

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• Possibly the words materialism and spirituality express two sides of one and the same fact.

  Honore de Balzac

  Two Sides, Facts, Spirituality

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• Materialism has cast man into such depths that a mighty concentration of forces is necessary to raise him again. He is subject to illnesses of the nervous system which are veritable epidemics of the life of the soul.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Men, Epidemics, Soul

  Rudolf Steiner (2013). “The Essential Rudolf Steiner”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm less influenced by any of [Karl] Marx's ideas today than I've ever been in my life, and most significantly Marx's theory of historical materialism, which I think is virtually a debris of despotism.

  Murray Bookchin

  Thinking, Ideas, Historical

  Source: robertgraham.wordpress.com

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