Quotes of: Material-wealth Keyword

War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.

George Orwell

Further, in the modern story, reality is that which is observable, measurable, and repeatable - the kinds of phenomena available, accessible, and verifiable to the five senses. Thus, reality comes to equal the scientific method. It should come as no ...

Intuitive Leadership: Embracing a Paradigm of Narrative, Metaphor, and Chaos

The kinds of purchases surveyed in the news generally sit well beyond necessity. In acquiring them, what we are after is rarely solely or even chiefly just material satisfaction; we are also guided by a deeper, often unconscious desire for some form ...

The News: A User's Manual

Parents should also question much of the contemporary emphasis on special materials and equipment for learning in a child's environment. A clutter of toys can be more confusing than satisfying to a child. On the other hand, natural situations, with o...

School Can Wait

The tides of time should be able to imprint the passing of the years on an object. The physical decay or natural wear and tear of the materials used does not in the least detract from the visual appeal, rather it adds to it. It is the changes of text...

Wabi Sabi: The Japanese Art of Impermanence

The tides of time should be able to imprint the passing of the years on an object. They physical decay or natural wear and tear of the materials used does not in the least detract from the visual appeal, rather it adds to it. It is the changes of tex...

Wabi Sabi: The Japanese Art of Impermanence

Dissection ... teaches us that the body of man is made up of certain kinds of material, so differing from each other in optical and other physical characters and so built up together as to give the body certain structural features. Chemical examinati...

Michael Foster

The fundamental absurdity of materialism is that it starts from the objective, and takes as the ultimate ground of explanation something objective, whether it be matter in the abstract, simply as it is thought, or after it has taken form, is empirica...

Arthur Schopenhauer

The resurrection of the body forbids us to despise the material realm.

Exodus: Commentaries on the Pentateuch

In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.

Camille Paglia

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.

John Berger

A sturdy hold, but I think there's something up with the material.

The Village Idiot Reviews

When people are treated like a product, they become obsessed with materialism.

Voice of Reason

The bottom line is that I like my first drafts to be blind, unconscious, messy efforts; that's what gets me the best material.

Jennifer Egan

I think the best way for me to go into auditions psychologically was to say, 'You're not going to get it. This is the only acting experience you're going to have with this material.'

Janel Moloney

The Louvre stopped buying paintings in 1848, and neither the Metropolitan nor the Hermitage acquire contemporary material.

Neil MacGregor

Learning is by nature curiosity... prying into everything, reluctant to leave anything, material or immaterial, unexplained.

Philo of Alexandria

Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache.

Philip Wylie

Mozart's seeming frothiness is just a light touch with very profound material. That's what I've found working on 'The Magic Flute.'

Simon McBurney

I never want to be in a position where I have to defend my material. It's too subjective. It's for other people to defend or not defend.

Sarah Silverman

With plays that require any kind of reading program, I'm reading for a couple of years before using the material.

Tom Stoppard