“Somebody said to me, ''But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.'' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, ''Now, let's write a swimming pool.''”
Paul McCartney
“Materialists and madmen never have doubts.”
G. K. Chesterton
“Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.”
Oscar Wilde
“Probably the reason we all go so haywire at Christmas time with the endless unrestrained and often silly buying of gifts is that we don't quite know how to put our love into words”
Harlan Miller
“How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.”
“By nature, I am a materialist... It is exactly these impingements upon our sense of touch and so forth that I'm interested in.”
Carl Andre
“It goes back to the Greeks. Plato was an idealist, Aristotle was a materialist.”
Jennifer Frederick
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