Materialism

“I have not traveled to be rich, to be learned, or to entertain myself.”

“We have sacrificed the old, immaterial gods and we are now occupying the temple of the Market God.”

“Cum pot eu, băiat de țăran, de la Băicoi, să stau într-o casă cu lei la ușă și atâta somptuozitate? Sunt bogat doar prin prisma generației și ar fi rușinos să afișez atâta opulență.”

“No hay verdades materiales, ni verdades racionales; toda verdad es ambas cosas a la vez o no es nada.”

“Money is certainly essential, but you will lose out if making money is your sole aim in life.”

“Each material has its own life, and one cannot without punishment destroy a living material to make a dumb senseless thing.”

“I'm rich in spirit. I have a rich spirit. I'm rich in soul, not financially, because that doesn't move me.”

“La pintura es el encuentro visible de lo sagrado con la materia.”

“Well, if there is no freedom, what good is money?”

“Мы живем в мире вещественном, мы принадлежим к нему целою половиною нашего существа.”

“I think, honestly, I regret joining the rat race.”

“For so many of our customers, cement is the stuff of dreams.”

“All our discontents about what we want appeared to me to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.”

“Ambition and avarice are the leading springs which generally actuate the restless mind.”

“If you get greedy you have to continue to be greedier and greedier to be happy—it never ends.”

“We wszystkich, bo na wszystkie mnie stać.”

“Though you made me a present of all Moscow, I would not stay.”

“There is no Wealth but Life.”