Material Quotes

Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.

I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay hands on everything they can get.

It is not clear what they have bought, how many secondhand materials they have bought. I am very worried that something like Chernobyl will happen to Iran.

There are essentially two questions in life – a spiritual question and a material question. The spiritual question is ‘Who am I?’ The material question is ‘What am I to do with my life?’ One leads to the other.

Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the reward of their charity and the alms they give. For these, they will receive from the Lord the reward and recompense they deserve.

Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.

The world will try to tell you that you need stuff to be somebody. Don’t listen.

The progressive development of man [has as its] ultimate purpose the complete mastery of mind over the material world.

There was something very comfortable in having plenty of stationery.

So instead of investing your time in a passion, you’ve sold your life to work for an uncaring machine that doesn’t understand you. That’s the problem with our society. And what’s the reward? Go home and get a big TV.