Wordsworth says somewhere that wherever Virgil seems to have composed 'with his eye on the object', Dryden fails to render him. Homer invariably composes 'with his eye onthe object', whether the object be moral or a material one: Pope composes with his eye on his style, into which he translates his object, whatever it is.

-Arnold, Matthew
On Translating Homer, lecture1.

It is not in the outward and visible world of material life that the Celtic genius of Wales or Ireland can at this day hope to count for much; it is in the inward world of thought and science.What it has been, what is has done, what it will be or will do, as a matter of modern politics.

-Arnold, Matthew
  'On the Study of Celtic Literature'.

Those who have handled scienceshave been either men of experiment or men of dogmas. The men of experiment are like the ant; they only collect and use; thereasonersresemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance.But the bee takes a middle course; it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digests by a power of its own. Not unlike this is the true business of philosophy.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Novum Organum bk.1, aphorism 95.

News, Opinion and Advertisment must all come under the head of Entertainment to a reasonable extentöor they will not be read.People do not read to be bored. Unless a newspaper can make its material in every department interesting it simply is not read.

-Baron
Publicity handout for the Daily Express, quoted in  A  J P  Taylor Beaverbrook (1972), ch.8.

Glass is a thing in disguise, an actor, is not solid at all, but a liquid†an old sheet of glass will not only take on a royal and purplish tinge but will reveal its true liquid nature by having grown fatter at the bottom and thinner at thetop, and† It isinvisible, solid, in short a joyous and paradoxical thing, asgood a material as any tobuild a life from.

-Carey, Peter
  Oscar and Lucinda, ch.32,'Prince Rupert's Drops'.

In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.

-Carlyle,Thomas
On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic,'The Hero as Man of Letters'.

Mostofthebasic materialawriter workswith isacquired before the age of fifteen.

-Cather,Willa Sibert
Quoted in Rene¤   Rapin Willa Cather (1930).

Toda la cristiandad debe tomar alegr|¤a y hacer grandes fiestas, y dar gracias solemnes a la SantaTrinidad, con muchas oraciones solemnes por el tanto ensalzamiento que habra¤  n, en torna¤  ndose tantos pueblos a nuestra Santa Fe, y despue¤  s por los bienes temporales que no solamente a la Espan‹  a, mas a todos los cristianos tendra¤  n aqu |¤ refigerio y ganancia. All Christendom ought to feel joyful and make great Compton-Burnett celebrations and give solemn thanks to the HolyTrinity with many solemn prayers for the great exaltation which it will have, in the turning of so many people to our holy faith, and afterwards for material benefits, since not only Spain but all Christians will hence have refreshment and profit.

-Columbus, Christopher Spanish name  Cristo¤  bal Colo¤  n
  Carta del descubrimiento (translated as The Letter in Spanish of Christopher Columbus,1889).

When physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, contribute to the detection of concrete human woes and to the development of plans for remedying them and relieving the human estate, they become moral; they become part of the apparatus of moral inquiry or science† When the consciousness of science is fully impregnated with the consciousness of human value, the greatest dualism which now weighs humanity down, the split between the material, the mechanical and the scientific and the moral and ideal will be destroyed.

-Dewey,John
  Reconstruction in Philosophy.

One need not be a Chamberöto be Hauntedö One need not be a Houseö The brain has Corridorsösurpassing Material Placeö

-Dickinson, Emily Elizabeth
c.1863  Complete Poems, no.670 (first published1891).

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

-Forster, E(dward) M(organ)
Two Cheers for Democracy,'Art for  Art's Sake'.

Anyone happy in this age and place Is daft or corrupt. Better to abdicate From a material and spiritual terrain Fit only for barbarians.

-Fuller, Roy Broadbent
  'Translation'.

These two, I say, viz. external material things, as the objects of SENSATION, and the operations of our own minds within, as the objects of REFLECTION, are to me the only originals from whence all our ideas take their beginnings.

-Locke,John
  Essay Concerning Human Understanding, bk.2, pt.1, section 4.

We are living in a material world And I am a material girl.

-Madonna full name Madonna LouiseVeronica Ciccone
  'Material Girl'.

   If capital isgrowing rapidly, wages may rise; the profit of capital rises incomparably more rapidly. The material position of the worker has improved, but at the cost of his social position. The social gulf that divides him from the capitalist has widened.

-Marx, Karl Heinrich
  'Wage Labour and Capital', collected in Robert C  Tucker (ed)  The Marx^Engels Reader (2nd edn,1972), p.211.

   All our inventions have endowed material forces with intellectual life and degraded human life into material force.

-Marx, Karl Heinrich
  Speech,14  Apr.

Science provides a vision of reality seen from the perspective of reason, a perspective that sees the vast order of the universe, living and non-living matter, as a material system governed by rules that can be known by the human mind.It is a powerful vision, formal and austere but strangely silent about many of the questions that deeplyconcernus. Scienceshowsuswhat existsbut not what to do about it.

-Pagels, Heinz R(udolf)
  The Dreams of Reason. US writer, Professor of Humanities  at the University of the Arts, Philadelphia.  Her  works  include  Sexual  Personae  (1990)  and Vamps andTramps (1994).

   One does not walk around a statue any more than one walks around a painting, because one does not walk around a figure to receive an impression from it.Nothing is material in space.

-Rosso, Medardo
Quoted in Edmond Claris De l'impressionisme en sculpture, 'Medardo Rosso' (1902).

Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to thegod he worships, aftera style purely his own, norcan he get off by hammering marble instead.We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones.

-Thoreau, Henry David
 Walden, or Life in theWoods,'Higher Laws'.

In all directions stretched the Great Australian Emptiness, in which the mind is the least of possessions†and the march of material ugliness does not raise a quiver from the average nerves. It was the exaltation of the'average'that made me panic most.

-White, Patrick Victor Martindale
  Essay on his literary career, in Australian Letters,'The Prodigal Son', vol.1, no.3, Apr.