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

Travel, of course, narrows the mind.

Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.

This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.

Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.

The orgasm has replaced the cross as the focus of longing and fulfillment.

One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.

Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.

The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized.

My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.

He was not only a bore; he bored for England.

People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.

There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.

It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.

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

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me.

I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.

History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.

St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.

Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

All of us admire people we don't like and like people we don't admire.

There is no such thing as darkness only a failure to see.

Theres far more truth in the Book of Genesis than in the quantum theory.

All new news is old news happening to new people.

The skyscrapers began to rise again, frailly massive, elegantly utilitarian, images in their grace, audacity and inconclusiveness, of the whole character of the people who produces them.

Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity.

A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.

More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and the Right.

Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.

This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the world.

After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared.

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

Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.

Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss.

An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.

It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.

The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism.

Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.

Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over.

That feeling of freedom, open highways of possibilities, has kind of been lost to materialism and marketing.

In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.

It's no secret that in New York during the last 30 years there has been a tragic exodus from the churches into materialism, secularism and humanism.

Like Gandhi, my husband had struggled with the issue of materialism.

The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.