When everything gets too much, give some away

The essence of the charge made against the modern high-status ideal is that it is guilty of effecting a gigantic distortion of priorities, of elevating to the highest level of achievement a process of material...

We may see the small Value God has for Riches, by the People he gives them to.”[Thoughts on Various Subjects, 1727]

I am, indeed, an absolute materialist so far as actual belief goes; with not a shred of credence in any form of supernaturalism—religion, spiritualism, transcendentalism, metempsychosis, or immortality.

Countries which have a different base, for example, a Christian one (or at least one with the memory of a Christian foundation) may indeed act most inconsistently and horribly. But when a state with a...

Our lives are defined by fear from the very time we are born to the time we bid adieu to this material world.

Philosophically, I am a logical empiricist and materialist, and I am a veteran of over 400 radio and TV interviews and debates. I am a Christ-myth advocate and am pursuing research into how Christianity could...

James Bond: a paid assassin of plutocratic cartels, a womanizer, a dipsomaniac, a speed demon, a materialist.

Diese jungen Menschen hatten keine Wünsche, keine Überzeugungen, geschweige denn Ideale, sie strebten keinen bestimmten Beruf an, wollten weder politischen Einfluss noch eine glückliche Familie, keine Kinder, keine Hausiere und keine Heimat, und sehnten sich...

A wedding is a ceremony men fund with money they know they don’t have … to prove the love they think they have.

Funny how in a material world full of pundits and economists obsessed with assets and liabilities -personally, economically and globally – few speak about the greatest of all these…YOU.

We’re all to driven by materialism. Obsessed with success. With money. With trying to impress people who’ll never be impressed.

Grey hoped the Church would yet be able to save England from the fate of Tyre or Carthage, the great trading nations

To wait at Monte Cristo for the purpose of watching like a dragon over the almost incalculable richs that had thus fallen into his possession satisfied not the cravings of his heart, which yearned to...

We all need new ideas, images, and experiences far more than we need new stoves or cars or computers.

Acolo unde predomină materialismul raţionalist statele se transformă mai puţin în nişte închisori, c t în nişte ospicii.

Logically, this kind of atheism did not prove that there was no God…. On the contrary, Southwell was typical in placing the onus probandi on those who affirmed the existence of God and Holyoake regarded...

Thoughts don’t become things; thoughts ARE things.

The real opposition is that between the ego-bound man, whose existence is structured by the principle of having, and the free man, who has overcome his egocentricity.

The Must be worthless by our estimation or keep us enslaved by an intemperate love of it.

Let your home be you mast and not your anchor.

Some take pains to be biblical, but many [Christian financial teachers, writers, investment counselors, and seminar leaders] simply parrot their secular colleagues. Other than beginning and ending with prayer, mentioning Christ, and sprinkling in some...

We preoccupy ourselves with what we had — or what we want to have — at the expense of what we have.

ground rule” of science today which requires scientists to seek explanations in the world around us based upon what we can observe, test, replicate, and verify

o. It is not wonderful. It is an ugly world. Not like this one. Anarres is all dusty and dry hills. All meager, all dry. And the people aren’t beautiful. They have big hands and...

We are born, we suffer, we die. However, love is a possibility for us all and, for some few, there is also a big house.”Daniel could not resist asking, because he really wanted to know....

After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared.

Sometimes you may have nothing yet without hope you’ve got less

I was lucky to live in New York when it was dangerous and edgy and cheap enough to play host to young, penniless artists. That was the era of “coffee shops” as they were defined...

To be invisible, paint yourself with the direct shade of 0. Leave nothing to chance, by taking nothing with you wherever you go.

Dreams shouldn’t be about what you can buy–they should be about what mark you leave in the world.

My method is atheism. I find the atheistic outlook provides a favourable background for cosmopolitan practices. Acceptance of atheism at once pulls down caste and religious barriers between man and man. There is no longer...

The pearl only weighs the oyster down.

Material wealth do not last forever, but that which probably lasts forever is the wealth of intelligence and creativity.

Most women have low standards. All they strive for is a highly paid man.

Ambition is greed without makeup.

Riches and abundance come hypocritically clad in sheep’s clothing, pretending to be security against anxieties, and they become then the object of anxiety. They secure a man against anxieties just about as well as the...

Baseball is too much of a sport to be called a business, and too much of a business to be called a sport.

If something possesses no capacity for activity whatever, it is nothing; it may be wholly penetrated, but it cannot be touched. Therefore passivity and reaction are everywhere equal.

Your shyness alone will bring you more emotional and material losses than all of your other negative attributes.

Philosophy, that leaned on Heaven before,Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more.

The elephants are dancing on the graves of squeeling mice.

Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need.

Don’t complicate your life by surrounding yourself with people who see life as a competition about who has the most material possessions.

Whoever dies with the most stuff wins.

The great point in Christianity is the search for an independent content for spiritual life which, according to the insights of its founder, could be elevated, not by the forces of a world external to...

…in principle, one can predict everything in the universe solely from physical laws. Thus, the long-standing ‘first cause’ problem intrinsic in cosmology has been finally dispelled.

Those who say that money can’t buy one love make it sound as if love can buy one money.

Poverty only tries men’s souls. It is loneliness that breaks the heart.

work” is but a flimsy, pretty ornament meant to momentarily thrill and capture attention. Why didn’t I reread my F. Scott Fitzgerald sooner? I might have saved myself some time.