(14 quotes found)
“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
“It goes back to the Greeks. Plato was an idealist, Aristotle was a materialist.”
Jennifer Frederick
“Let Christmas not become a thing Merely of merchant's trafficking, Of tinsel, bell and holly wreath And surface pleasure, but beneath The childish glamour, let us find Nourishment for soul and mind. Let us follow kinder ways Through our teeming human maze, And help the age of peace to come From a Dreamer's martyrdom.”
Contributed by: Randi
Madeline Morse
“Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than material force, that thoughts rule the world.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“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.”
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
“Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.”
“The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.”
Malcolm de Chazal
“If they want to put Christ back in Christmas, they should skip the mall and give that money to the poor.”
Bill Leonard
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