The things you own end up owning you. It's only after you lose everything that you're free to do anything.
Chuck PalahniukStichwörter: freedom materialism posessions
The accouterments of life were so rich and varied, so elaborated, that almost no place at all was left for life itself. Each and every accessory was so costly and beautiful that it had an existence above and beyond the purpose it was meant to serve – confusing the observer and absorbing attention.
Thomas MannStichwörter: things materialism
The books and magazines streamed in. He could buy them all, they piled up around him and even while he read, the number of those still to be read disturbed him. … they stood in rows, weighing down his life like a possession which he did not succeed in subordinating to his personality.
Thomas MannStichwörter: reading things materialism readers possessions
Further, in the modern story, reality is that which is observable, measurable, and repeatable - the kinds of phenomena available, accessible, and verifiable to the five senses. Thus, reality comes to equal the scientific method. It should come as no surprise that in such a world the life of the spirit is ignored or marginalized (as well as a great many other nonmaterial things.) This view of life subsequently birthed in human beings a ravenous materialism as matters of the soul were ignored or reinterpreted within this tightly controlled version of reality. When the life of the spirit is ignored, people will seek to feed the hunger of a neglected soul with the only nourishment available: in our context, the consumptive acquisition of material goods.
Tim KeelStichwörter: science capitalism spirituality materialism modernity
I think at the heart of so much restlessness of the day is a spiritual vacuum. There is a yearning for meaningful lives, a yearning for values we can commonly embrace. I hear an almost inaudible but pervasive discontent with the price we pay for our current materialism. And I hear a fluttering of hope that there might be more to life than bread and circuses.
Bill MoyesStichwörter: hope materialism discontent
Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz?
Janis JoplinStichwörter: prayer materialism
Our economy is based on spending billions to persuade people that happiness is buying things, and then insisting that the only way to have a viable economy is to make things for people to buy so they’ll have jobs and get enough money to buy things.
Philip SlaterStichwörter: capitalism greed materialism economy commercialism endless-circles failed-systems pursuit-of-loneliness stuff-things
Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul; it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own.
Michel de MontaigneStichwörter: strength materialism valor
Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else.
Charles Haddon SpurgeonStichwörter: materialism worship idolatry devotional discipleship intimacy-with-god
We are being called upon to act against a prevailing culture, to undermine our own entrenched tendency to accumulate and to consume, and to refuse to define our individuality by our presumed ability to do whatever we want.
Lyanda Lynn HauptStichwörter: materialism environmental-conservation
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