Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes. |
Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth. |
We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them. |
Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss. |
After a visit to the beach, it's hard to believe that we live in a material world. |
Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false. |
The best things in life aren't things. |
There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed. |
The day you stop racing, is the day you win the race. |
I've always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you. |