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Quotes about materialism
Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false. (Amiel Henri Frederic)
The son will run away from the family not at eighteen but at twelve, emancipated by his gluttonous precocity; he will fly not to seek heroic adventures, not to deliver a beautiful prisoner from a tower, not to immortalize a garret with sublime thoughts, but to found a business, to enrich himself and to compete with his infamous papa. (Amiel Henri Frederic)
Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom. (Amiel Henri Frederic)
There is one advantage to having nothing, it never needs repair. (Amiel Henri Frederic)
It all depends on whether you have things, or they have you. (Amiel Henri Frederic)
Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit. (Amiel Henri Frederic)
Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still entangled with the desire for ownership. (Amiel Henri Frederic)
We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them. (Amiel Henri Frederic)
Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth. (Amiel Henri Frederic)
We are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to expand. (Amiel Henri Frederic)
Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes. (Amiel Henri Frederic)
Acquisition means life to miserable mortals. (Amiel Henri Frederic)
Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss. (Amiel Henri Frederic)
The essence of worldliness is exclusion of God. (Amiel Henri Frederic)
When we of the so-called better classes are scared as men were never scared in history at material ugliness and hardship; when we put off marriage until our house can be artistic, and quake at the thought of having a child without a bank-account and doomed to manual labor, it is time for thinking men to protest against so unmanly and irreligious a state of opinion. (Amiel Henri Frederic)
Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older. (Amiel Henri Frederic)
The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment. (Amiel Henri Frederic)
The strongest argument for the un-materialistic character of American life is the fact that we tolerate conditions that are, from a negative point of view, intolerable. What the foreigner finds most objectionable in American life is its lack of basic comfort. No nation with any sense of material well-being would endure the food we eat, the cramped apartments we live in, the noise, the traffic, the crowded subways and buses. American life, in large cities, is a perpetual assault on the senses and the nerves; it is out of asceticism, out of unworldliness, precisely, that we bear it. (Amiel Henri Frederic)
The strongest argument for the un-materialistic character of American life is the fact that we tolerate conditions that are, from a negative point of view, intolerable. What the foreigner finds most objectionable in American life is its lack of basic comfort. No nation with any sense of material well-being would endure the food we eat, the cramped apartments we live in, the noise, the traffic, the crowded subways and buses. American life, in large cities, is a perpetual assault on the senses and the nerves; it is out of asceticism, out of unworldliness, precisely, that we bear it. (Amiel Henri Frederic)
Oh, what a void there is in things. (Amiel Henri Frederic)
As there is no worldly gain without some loss so there is no worldly loss without some gain. (Amiel Henri Frederic)
Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time. (Amiel Henri Frederic)
It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly. (Amiel Henri Frederic)
There must be more to life than having everything. (Amiel Henri Frederic)
Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment. (Amiel Henri Frederic)
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