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The best things in life aren't things.
The best things in life aren't things.
Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.. Epictetus, c read more
What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.. Epictetus, c 200 AD -Seneca.
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.
As there is no worldly gain without some loss so there is no worldly loss without some gain.
As there is no worldly gain without some loss so there is no worldly loss without some gain.
Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
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.
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.
Cars and cameras are the two things I let myself be materialistic about. I don't care about other stuff.
Cars and cameras are the two things I let myself be materialistic about. I don't care about other stuff.
