I’ve often wondered where Jesus would apply His hastily made whip if He were to visit our culture. My guess is that it would not be money-changing tables in the temple that would feel His wrath, but the display racks in Christian bookstores.
R.C. SproulMots clés christianity jesus materialism retail
It had never occurred to him that he should live in any other than what he would have called an ordinary way, with green glasses for hock, and excellent waiting at table. In warming himself at French social theories he had brought away no smell of scorching. We may handle even extreme opinions with impunity while our furniture, our dinner-giving, and preference for armorial bearings in our own ease, link us indissolubly with the established order.
George EliotMots clés assumptions materialism
Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity.
George EliotMots clés vanity materialism ego
I’ve always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you.
George EliotMots clés poverty materialism
The Christmas tree, twinkling with lights, had a mountain of gifts piled up beneath it, like offerings to the great god of excess.
Tess GerritsenMots clés christmas holidays materialism gifts tess-gerritsen
In poor Rosamond’s mind there was not room enough for luxuries to look small in.
George EliotMots clés materialism
Money is a great servant but a bad master.
Francis BaconMots clés money materialism
Hold material goods and wealth on a flat palm and not in a clenched fist.
Alistair BeggMots clés wealth christianity theology materialism bible-verse
A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper. Those who can barely live, and who live perforce in a very small, and generally very inferior, society, may well be illiberal and cross.
Jane AustenMots clés materialism
There are at least two ways to believe in the idea of quality. You can believe there's something ineffable going on within the human mind, or you can believe we just don't understand what quality in a mind is yet, even though we might someday. Either of those opinions allows one to distinguish quantity and quality. In order to confuse quantity and quality, you have to reject both possibilities. The mere possibility of there being something ineffable about personhood is what drives many technologists to reject the notion of quality. They want to live in an airtight reality that resembles an idealized computer program, in which everything is understood and there are no fundamental mysteries. They recoil from even the hint of a potential zone of mystery or an unresolved seam in one's worldview. This desire for absolute order usually leads to tears in human affairs, so there is a historical reason to distrust it. Materialist extremists have long seemed determined to win a race with religious fanatics: Who can do the most damage to the most people?
Jaron LanierMots clés religion quality materialism personhood quantity
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