Nothing in the tangible word that isn't living has any value beyond a dollar amount. Considering that dollars can only buy more tangible and inanimate objects, it would seem a far more worthwhile goal to instead learn to place value on the treasures of the mind. Memories, knowledge and skill together are the only things we will ever actually own.
Ashly LorenzanaTags: money knowledge world mind materialism value worth possessions skill treasures objects ownership dollars tangible
I'd much rather buy an experience than something I can possess in the material world
Ashly LorenzanaTags: life money materialism buy experiences spending
He looked at them and saw their faces did not fit. The skin on the skulls crawled and twitched like half-solid paste. All the heads in his angle of vision seemed irregular lumps, like potatoes but without a potato’s repose: potatoes with crawling surfaces punctured by holes which opened and shut, holes blocked with coloured jelly or fringed with bone stumps, elastic holes through which air was sucked or squirted, holes secreting salt, wax, spittle and snot. He grasped a pencil in his trouser pocket, wishing it were a knife he could thrust through his cheek and use to carve his face down to the clean bone. But that was foolish. Nothing clean lay under the face. He thought of sectioned brains, palettes, eyeballs and ears seen in medical diagrams and butcher’s shops. He thought of elastic muscle, pulsing tubes, gland sacks full of lukewarm fluid, the layers of cellular and fibrous and granular tissues inside a head. What was felt as tastes, caresses, dreams and thoughts could be seen as a cleverly articulated mass of garbage.
Alasdair GrayTags: materialism potato sensitive-artiste
Like many another materialist, that is, he lied cleverly on the basis of insufficient knowledge, because the knowledge supplied seemed to his own particular intelligence inadmissible.
("The Wendigo")
Tags: rationality materialism rational-thought rationalists materialst
To buy women things, some men entertain. To entertain women, some men buy things.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTags: men women entertainment dating materialism
The reality of loving God is loving him like he's a Superhero who actually saved you from stuff rather than a Santa Claus who merely gave you some stuff.
Criss JamiTags: love reality peace god grace mercy christmas sin salvation jesus spirituality santa-claus materialism apologetics stuff christ superhero
An idea? An idea won't get you nothing but another idea. You need money, cash, to make anything happen in this doggone world.
Nathan McCallTags: cynicism ideas materialism
I have a firm belief in such things as, you know, the water, the Earth, the trees and sky. And I'm wondering, it is increasingly difficult to find those elements in nature, because it's nature I believe in rather than some spiritual thing.
Bill BlassTags: reductionism spiritual atheism water atheist spirituality earth materialism elements
He had brought no possessions with him; he would take none away. There were none to have--everything of value was in the school computer or his own head and hands.
Orson Scott CardTags: materialism value possession
We preoccupy ourselves with what we had — or what we want to have — at the expense of what we have.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTags: materialism desire need possessions want preoccupation
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