Words matter. These are the best Material World Quotes from famous people such as Ellen Swallow Richards, Joseph Joubert, Tom Ford, Mary Garden, Richard Flanagan, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations to daily life and action.
Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
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.
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.
We live in a material world, not a dramatic one. And truth resides not in melodrama, but in the precise measure of material things.
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.
Our epoch is a time of tragic collision between matter and spirit and of the downfall of the purely material world view.
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.
Corporate America limits the world to consumerism. Science can limit it to the material world. Even religion limits it to a lot of theories that can explain everything. I think we need cinema to break that apart and remind us that we’re not in control, and we don’t understand as much as we think do.
I wasn’t born into a religious home, but I was just not a materialist. I didn’t believe the material world was all there was or, even, most of what there was. I always felt that I was part of a reality of which the majority was unseen.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I really enjoy when I’m asked questions that leap from the physical world and the material world into our hearts.
Well, we’re living in a material world, and I’m a material girl… or boy.
