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We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.

Materialism is an identity crisis.

I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material but I know it when I see it.

Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.

A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material.

An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.