Non-Materialism Quotes

I don't spend my life making money to spend tomorrow, or to acquire possessions.

I have never had the need or thrill for being wealthy.

Music is what I care about. Not material things.

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.

I'm not a materialistic person, to be honest. I'm all about the energy, man. I never had anything growing up, so I don't know what it means to lose anything.

Art is inspiring. Walking into a gallery, or when the lights go up on a stage; that thrill of getting something that has nothing to do with acquisition.

Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.

On the mathematical side, you could in principle build a society in which people were fulfilling their needs and flourishing as human beings in a higher way than in a consumer society, provided you had the right investments in the opportunity to flourish in less materialistic ways.

And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.

Like so many American families, our families weren't asking for much. They didn't begrudge anyone else's success or care that others had much more than they did... in fact, they admired it.

I know, in my heart of hearts, I don't do things for money.

The biggest things in life are not materials.

I'm really an artist. I really do this. I don't need the money. It doesn't matter to me.

I'm not really interested in making money.

I don't need to amass a ton of wealth for myself.

We must break the evil habit of ignoring the spiritual. We must shift our interest from the seen to the unseen.

Quantum physics is teaching us that particles themselves don't create particles. It's what Jesus said 2,000 years ago, that it's the Spirit that gives life and that you don't get particles from more particles.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

Homelessness is the fundamental idea of salvation in Jainism. It means the breaking off of all earthly relations, and therefore, above all, indifference to general impressions and avoidance of all worldly motives, the ceasing to act, to hope, to desire.

You don't need money to be free. You can just say if you don't need stuff, you're always free.

I'm not ambitious. I don't want to get anywhere, I don't want anything more. I sometimes think that for me that is the real freedom, that I don't want anything. I don't want money or prizes. I want people to know that a war is going to be fought.

I am learning that a man can live profoundly without masses of things.

My final words of advice to you are educate, agitate and organize; have faith in yourself. With justice on our side I do not see how we can loose our battle. The battle to me is a matter of joy. The battle is in the fullest sense spiritual. There is nothing material or social in it. For ours is a battle not for wealth or for power. It is battle for freedom. It is the battle of reclamation of human personality.

All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind.

The Quakers don't believe in music or art; they think it's a vanity.