Materialism

He was troubled by materialism.

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Any kind of material form whatever, whether past, future, or present, internal or external, gross or subtle, inferior or superior, far or near, all material form should be seen as it actually is with proper wisdom thus: “This is not mine, this I am not, this is not my self.”

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Materialism in its literal sense is long since dead. ...It is ...belief in the universal dominance of scientific law which is nowadays generally meant by materialism.

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The horseman serves the horse,And ride mankind.

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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.

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Materialism is the recognition of "objects in themselves", or outside the mind; ideas and sensations are copies of images of those objects.

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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.

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Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.

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Materialism ends up denying the existence of any irreducible subjective qualitative states of sentience or awareness.

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Dualism makes the problem insoluble; materialism denies the existence of any phenomenon to study, and hence of any problem.

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In the course of the 19th Century there was a great upsurge of natural-scientific thinking and all its attendant results. One of the first results was theoretical materialism accompanied by atheism. It can be said that the materialists of the 19th Century positively revelled in atheism.

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