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Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
There is one advantage to having nothing, it never needs repair.
There is one advantage to having nothing, it never needs repair.
Most people seek after what they do not possess and are thus enslaved by the very things they want to read more
Most people seek after what they do not possess and are thus enslaved by the very things they want to acquire. William R. Bradford -Anwar El-Sadat.
You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the read more
You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you're satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you've got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.
It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into read more
It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.
There must be more to life than having everything.
There must be more to life than having everything.
Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it read more
Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.
Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
