Quotes about Material World

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma. Votes: 4

Well, we're living in a material world, and I'm a material girl... or boy. Votes: 4

Without question, the material world and your everyday needs distract you from living meaningfully. Votes: 4

Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations to daily life and action. Votes: 4

There are two worlds we live in: a material world, bound by the laws of physics, and the world inside our mind, which is just as important. Votes: 4

We see things in this material world, wherein our bodies dwell, only because our mind through its attention lives in another world, only because it contemplates the beauties of the archetypal and intelligible world which Reason contains. Votes: 4

We are living in a material world and I'm a material girl. Votes: 2

Despite its flaws, Marxism still seems to explain the material world better than anything else. Votes: 2

Stop using sentences in your material world that reflect what it is you do not want to be. Votes: 2

I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book. Votes: 2

Consciousness does not just passively reflect the objective material world; it plays an active role in creating reality itself. Votes: 2

I really enjoy when I'm asked questions that leap from the physical world and the material world into our hearts. Votes: 2

Our epoch is a time of tragic collision between matter and spirit and of the downfall of the purely material world view. Votes: 2

We live in a material world. I'm not saying that beautiful things don't enhance our lives. But, in our culture, we're never happy. Votes: 2

We live in a material world, not a dramatic one. And truth resides not in melodrama, but in the precise measure of material things. Votes: 2

The beauty of existence is that we get past the superficialities and material world and hopefully move into - lord - hopefully a bit of depth. Votes: 2

The material world has only been constructed at the price of taking the self, that is, mind, out of it, removing it; mind is not part of it... Votes: 2

Seeking can become stressful when you apply the same laws that you apply in the material world - hard work, exacting plans, driving ambition, and attachment to outcome. Votes: 2

One of the things capitalism does is, it does enhance and exacerbate the sin of pride, making yourself, the material world the center of your universe, instead of God's will. Votes: 2

For nearly a hundred years, we have known that the material world is an illusion. Everything that seems solid - a rock, a tree, your body - is actually 99.999% empty space. Votes: 2

Invention is the most important product of man's creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of human nature to human needs. Votes: 2

The ordinary man considers solids and liquids and the energy manifestations of the material world to be vastly different, but the yogi sees them as various vibrations of the one cosmic light. Votes: 2

I would say I was still a Marxist - which is not to be confused with being a Communist. Despite its flaws, Marxism still seems to explain the material world better than anything else. Votes: 2

We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one another, and to the spiritual and material world - mad, even, from an ideal standpoint we can glimpse but not adopt. Votes: 2

It does not appear to me to be open to question that there is in the soul of man a nature and an order obtaining in it as permanent and universal as in the material world. Votes: 2

I can't see any great evidence that humans have any ability to access anything other than the material world. Beyond that, who knows, but there's no good evidence that would take me to any particular belief. Votes: 2

Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others, cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world. Votes: 2

Modern scientific knowledge appeared piecemeal. Historians wrote about human history; physicists tackled the material world; and biologists studied the world of living organisms. But there were few links between these disciplines, as researchers focused on getting the details right. Votes: 2

But I deal with this meditating and by understanding I've been put on the planet to serve humanity. I have to remind myself to live simply and not to overindulge, which is a constant battle in a material world. Votes: 2

But I deal with this by meditating and by understanding I've been put on the planet to serve humanity. I have to remind myself to live simply and not overindulge, which is a constant battle in a material world. Votes: 2

In the Pythagorean system, thinking about numbers, or doing mathematics, was an inherently masculine task. Mathematics was associated with the gods, and with transcendence from the material world; women, by their nature, were supposedly rooted in this latter, baser realm. Votes: 2

Through a long and painful process, I've learned that happiness is an inside job - not based on anything or anyone in the outer material world. I've become a different and better person - not perfect, but still a work in progress. Votes: 2

The mind of man has perplexed itself with many hard questions. Is space infinite, and in what sense? Is the material world infinite in extent, and are all places within that extent equally full of matter? Do atoms exist or is matter infinitely divisible? Votes: 2

The mind of man has perplexed itself with many hard questions. Is space infinite, and in what sense? Is the material world infinite in extent, and are all places within that extent equally full of matter? Do atoms exist or is matter infinitely divisible? Votes: 2

There is no greater power in Heaven or on Earth than pure, unconditional love. The nature of the God force, the unseen intelligence in all things, which causes the material world and is the center of both the spiritual and physical plane, is best described as pure, unconditional love. Votes: 2

I have always believed that the material world is governed by nonmaterial sources, so that in that sense 'English Music' is an exercise in the spiritual as well as the material. I have always been attracted to the Gothic and spiritual imagination, and I've always been interested in visionaries. Votes: 2

Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the validity of philosophic concepts for himself, or to form what, for lack of a better phrase, I might call the wise and tragic sense of life. Votes: 2

The artist seeks contact with his intuitive sense of the gods, but in order to create his work, he cannot stay in this seductive and incorporeal realm. He must return to the material world in order to do his work. It's the artist's responsibility to balance mystical communication and the labor of creation. Votes: 2

If the intensity of the material world is plotted along the horizontal axis, and the response of the human mind is on the vertical, the relation between the two is represented by the logarithmic curve. Could this rule provide a clue to the relationship between the objective measure of information, and our subjective perception of it? Votes: 2

Today certain definite ideas are developing out of the Egyptian ideas. What is called Darwinism today did not arise because of external reasons. We are the same souls who, in Egypt, received the pictures of the animal forms of man's forebears. The old views have awakened again, but man has descended more deeply into the material world. Votes: 2

The burgeoning field of computer science has shifted our view of the physical world from that of a collection of interacting material particles to one of a seething network of information. In this way of looking at nature, the laws of physics are a form of software, or algorithm, while the material world-the hardware-plays the role of a gigantic computer. Votes: 2

The material world may be nothing but illusion... Votes: 0

We live in a material world, not a dramatic one. Votes: 0

Lords of immortality will always fail in the material world. Votes: 0

The doctrine of laisser-faire will not work in the material world. Votes: 0

Truth is to the moral world what gravitation is to the material. Votes: 0

Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility. Votes: 0

It's extremely difficult to come across quality material. It's a competitive world. Votes: 0

Science is the disinterested search for the objective truth about the material world. Votes: 0

Photography is a kind of overstatement, a heroic copulation with the material world. Votes: 0

Paper is the strongest material in the world; paper can handle what I can't. Votes: 0

We are living in a material world, so why not live with something beautiful? Votes: 0

Love is the linchpin that connects the material world with higher levels of existence. Votes: 0

I'd much rather buy an experience than something I can possess in the material world Votes: 0

I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias. Votes: 0

Every time I get something under control in my own life, the world provides more material. Votes: 0

What if it should be God's plan to people the world with better and finer material? Votes: 0

As long as there are annoying people in the world, I won't run out of material. Votes: 0

Man is the jewel of God, who has created this material world to keep his treasure in. Votes: 0

Material things are not to be despised-without them there can be no manifestation in the material world. Votes: 0

A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about. Votes: 0

The world to come must be composed of what is past. No other material is at hand. Votes: 0

Memories are of the ethereal, and not the material world, that is how I know I am forever. Votes: 0

No barrier stands between the material world of science and the sensibilities of the hunter and the poet, Votes: 0

Even if you want one drop of respect you have to take birth in this material world again. Votes: 0

I know fashion is a material thing, but we live in a material world and I love clothes. Votes: 0

The progressive development of man [has as its] ultimate purpose the complete mastery of mind over the material world. Votes: 0

Art happens when anyone in the world takes any kind of material and fashions it into a deliberate statement. Votes: 0

the material world and the flesh are only temporary - there are no sins of the flesh, spirit is everything! Votes: 0

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world. Votes: 0

I trust my work. It's a collaboration with the material, and when it's viewed, it's a collaboration with the world. Votes: 0

Materialists try to live in the lower story NON-MATERIAL WORLD Subjective, Superstitious, Mental Constructs MATERIAL WORLD Objective, Scientific, Knowable Facts Votes: 0

I think from an artist's point of view, everything in art, in fact everything in the world is available as material. Votes: 0

Any materialist philosophy must take as its point of departure the existence of a material world that is independent of our minds. Votes: 0

The hindrances to being psychic are a general dullness that develops from living in the material world, and being a material girl. Votes: 0

Every single decision I make about what material I do, what I'm putting out in the world, is because of my children. Votes: 0

Many in the modern world fell for the myth that we're living in a static, fixed, flat reality of just material things. Votes: 0

If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos. Votes: 0

For quiet, solitary and observant children create their own world and live in it, nourishing their imaginations on the material at hand. Votes: 0

The material world will always attract a lot of women. A lot of people would be down for that, whatever the cost. Votes: 0

Those too impressed with material things cannot hold their place n the world of culture; they are relegated to inferiority and ultimate death. Votes: 0

I'm more convinced each day of the complete unreality of the material world and the supreme vitality of the invisible world of spirit. Votes: 0

In the material world, where everything is valued, when you commit yourself to God, beauty and love, it can be mistaken for extravagance. Votes: 0

Happiness and unhappiness are not primarily created by the material world or the physical body. First and foremost, they are decisions of the mind. Votes: 0

Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues. Votes: 0

Everything depends on your state of awareness. If your state of awareness is low, then all the material success in the world won't help. Votes: 0

The essence of life, I concluded, did not lie in the material. It penetrated, but was not bound to, the physical world of science. Votes: 0

For where did Dante take the material of his hell but from our actual world? And yet he made a very proper hell of it. Votes: 0

The world is not to be approached, blueprint in hand, as if it were so much raw material waiting to be fashioned to someone's design. Votes: 0

There is no point when all the material benefits of the world add up to a general state of happiness. It is the Great Misconception. Votes: 0

Far from the West having caused the poverty in the Third World, contact with the West has been the principal agent of material progress there. Votes: 0

Now, after the material resources of the colonies have been looted, their spiritual and cultural resources are being transformed into commodities for the world market. Votes: 0

The ideal of happiness has always taken material form in the house, whether cottage or castle; it stands for permanence and separation from the world. Votes: 0

Ballet is the body rising. Ballet is ceremonial and hieratic. Its disdain for the commonplace material world is the source of its authority and glamour. Votes: 0

If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves, art would be unnecessary. Votes: 0

This actual world of what is knowable, in which we are and which is in us, remains both the material and the limit of our consideration. Votes: 0

Demon mean knowledge in Greek, especially about the material world. Science means knowledge in Latin. A jurisdictional dispute is exposed, even if we look no further Votes: 0

I do a lot of cultural material that's based on my traveling around the world. I basically just report what I've seen and where I've been. Votes: 0

The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain. Votes: 0

I rather wish to rest my case on material considerations, not those of the social future but those of the actual historical period of the capitalist world-economy. Votes: 0

How many people in the pews know that [ Jonathan Edwards] is both a founder of evangelicalism and, say, an idealist who denied that the material world exists? Votes: 0

I think television is a unique form, in terms of storytelling. Having source material for these really dense, complicated, serialized dramas is a great way of world-building. Votes: 0

This is in a way the most important thing about soul is that it's a kind of principle which mediates between the universal intellect and the material world. Votes: 0

Inequality may linger in the world of material things, but great music, great literature, great art and the wonders of science are, and should be, open to all. Votes: 0

The world is so ordered that we must, in a material sense, lose everything we have and love, one thing after another, until we ourselves close our eyes. Votes: 0

Only a fighting nation can make itself responsible for world peace, and such a nation must organize its material resources and manpower with the highest possible degree of efficiency. Votes: 0

The universe is made up of vibrating, pulsing light. When our attention level drops, we don't see that. Instead we see what appears to be a solid material world. Votes: 0

I don't think there's a shortage of material in the world. Or in my head. I just pray for continued good health, because I've got other stories to tell. Votes: 0

As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other. Votes: 0

Thus not only the mental and the material, but the theoretical and the practical in the mathematical world, are brought into more intimate and effective connection with each other. Votes: 0

In meditation, when your thoughts are stopped, you become empty. When you are empty, your mind folds back on itself and you see through the illusions of the material world. Votes: 0

Just because one is spiritual doesn't mean that one doesn't like crocodile, cashmere. We live in a material world. We still experience these things. It doesn't mean to completely disregard them. Votes: 0

Everyone in advanced meditation practice should be involved with the economic support of the spread of the dharma. We live in a material world, and it's very expensive to teach meditation. Votes: 0

Please, no matter how we advance technologically , please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book." (Acceptance speech, National Book Award 2010 (Nonfiction), November 17, 2010) Votes: 0

One aim of physical sciences had been to give an exact picture the material world. One achievement of physics in the twentieth century has been to prove that that aim is unattainable. Votes: 0

The core practice of magic is: The execution of a willed intent to create change in the material world, which either defies, hastens or purifies the consequences of natural cause and effect. Votes: 0

As the conceptual, material world increases its hold on us, and inanimate objects become more lifelike, we humans must become more human. Open hearts, kindness and care-these are our most precious gifts. Votes: 0

I am fashionably unimpressed with the material world. I am moved by the beauty of aspiration, and I hope that I can elevate myself to the standards I have imposed on others. Votes: 0

I think all of us are living in denial of our spiritual nature as we continue to participate in the material world even though we know we're destroying the planet we live on. Votes: 0

We don't see the material world for what it is meant to be: the means to communion with God.... There is a belief missing, that God is good and that he gives good gifts. Votes: 0

We are still waging Peloponnesian wars. Our control of the material world and our positive science have grown fantastically. But our very achievements turn against us, making politics more random and wars more bestial. Votes: 0