Materialism Quotes

"Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing." "We are everlastingly in the world of objects; worse than that, we are objectified in objects. Humanity has become a production of artificial experiences and sensations." "Wish you would learn to love people and use things, and not the other way around" "The whole damn world is just as obsessed with who's the best dressed and who's having sex" "What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet." "I try to remember, as I hear about friends getting engaged, that it’s not about the ring and it’s not about the wedding. It’s a grave thing, getting married. And it’s easy to get swept up in the wrong things." "The production of ideas of conceptions of consciousness is at first directly interwoven with the material activity and the material intercourse of men the language of real life" "The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people" "Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have" "Don’t gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold." "Religion is the opium of the masses." "Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me." "Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like." "Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled." "There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain." "It’s not about the car your drive. It’s about the size of your arm hanging out of the window." "We spend more time learning how to make a living than we do learning how to make a life." "The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most." "I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money." "Anything which is more than our necessity is poison. It may be power, wealth, hunger, ego, greed, laziness, love, ambition, hate or anything."