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“Materialistic perception of life makes us spiritually shortsighted”
“Science and religion have in common the aim of seeking and achieving unity. Most scientists today are being led increasingly away from the fundamental aim of science to achieve unity into rather li...”
“The conflict between science and religion has a single and simple cause. It is the designation as religiously canonical of any conception of the material world open to scientific investigation....A...”
“The task of defending capitalism was still important to leave to the capitalists.”
“Other major world religions are still centered in the same general geographic area from which they originated except for Christianity. Even more intriguing, the center of Christian growth continues...”
“We have enough money. You don't want to be Uncle Daddy.”
“We do not belong to this material world that science constructs for us. We are not in it; we are outside. We are only spectators. The reason why we believe that we are in it, that we belong to the ...”
“We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies.”
“Justice is useful when money is useless.”
“Riches and abundance come hypocritically clad in sheep's clothing, pretending to be security against anxieties, and they become then the object of anxiety. They secure a man against anxieties just ...”
“Civilians who volunteer generally wish to escape, not to share, privatizations worse than their own.”
“Grey hoped the Church would yet be able to save England from the fate of Tyre or Carthage, the great trading nations”
“I will say that the cross of materialism is that it never quite succeeds in believing what it preaches, in thinking its own thought. This may sound complicated, but is in fact simple: the materiali...”
“...to alienate human beings from their own decision-making is to change them into objects.”
“On the whole I consider the constant need for delight and diversion in completely new things to be a sign of pettiness, lack of inner life, of estrangement from nature, and of a mediocre or defecti...”
“[Materialism] seeks the primary and most simple state of matter, and then tries to develop all the others from it; ascending from mere mechanism, to chemism, to polarity, to the vegetable and to th...”
“The fundamental absurdity of materialism is that it starts from the objective, and takes as the ultimate ground of explanation something objective, whether it be matter in the abstract, simply as i...”
“In post-Nietzschean spirit, the West appears to be busily undermining its own erstwhile metaphysical foundations with an unholy mlange of practical materialism, political pragmatism, moral and cult...”
“Nothing humbles a rich man better than a poor man that isnt willing to do anything for money.”
“The problem with people today, is, they have religions but they have no spirituality. They go to church but they cannot even manage the condition of their own souls. They take pride to state the na...”
