We are materialists and atheists, and we glory in the fact.
To philosophical materialists God is no more than an idea in the human mind, and not a very important idea.
I think, therefore matter is capable of thinking.
Materialism and spirituality are two pretty racquets with which charlatans in cap and gown make the same ball fly.
Dualism makes the problem insoluble; materialism denies the existence of any phenomenon to study, and hence of any problem.
The so-called 'materialistic conception of history,' with the crude elements of genius of the early form which appeared, for instance, in the 'Communist Manifesto,' still prevails only in the minds of laymen and dilettantes.
The natural scientist must be a modern materialist, a conscious adherent of the materialism represented by Marx, i.e., he must be a dialectical materialist.
The sole "property" of matter with whose recognition philosophical materialism is bound up is the property of being an objective reality, of existing outside the mind.
From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up ... . And why is this done? For no other reason, I am sure, except to make us independent of a Creator.
If you go back through 2000 years, I guess luck, Marx, and God have made history, the three of them together.
By nature, I am a materialist... It is exactly these impingements upon our sense of touch and so forth that I'm interested in.
Materialists try to live in the lower story NON-MATERIAL WORLD Subjective, Superstitious, Mental Constructs MATERIAL WORLD Objective, Scientific, Knowable Facts
At this stage you must admit that whatever is seen to be sentient is nevertheless composed of atoms that are insentient. The phenomena open to our observation so not contradict this conclusion or conflict with it. Rather they lead us by the hand and compel us to believe that the animate is born, as I maintain, of the insentient.
A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.
Science has, after all, made some colossal blunders in the past... Our current materialism and its rejection of the idea of a spirit or soul might be just another great falsity.
I'm a strict materialist - but the police are brutal materialists.
The modern materialists are not permitted to doubt; they are forbidden to believe.
You don't have to be a Christian to recognize that materialism does not match reality. Materialism is not true to universal human experience - what we all know about ourselves.
The most loathsome materialism is not the kind people usually think of, but the sort that attempts to let dead ideas pass for living realities, diverting into sterile myths the stubborn and lucid attention we give to what we have within us that must forever die.
Materialists and madmen never have doubts.
