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„To be or to have?” To be or to have? What kind of values is more important spiritual or material? Many people ask this question. Many new sciences, such as philosophy, theology, literature, even political science and others were created in order to give answers to such questions and to this question in particular. In fact it is very hard to answer the question, because in order to give answer to it we need to look deep into both topics and also understand what is to be important. Looking back to the history of the mankind we see that people think about this question from the early times, from the moment they have got to the reasonable thinking. The first evidence for it is the fact that people have invented God, which is the integral part of the question of existence. Of course it is not yet fully proven that God doesn’t exist, but still we can say definitely that some rituals and praying, even the Bible were written and created by men. Simultaneously to all the mentioned above actions man continue to eat, sleep, earn money and do everything in order just to live and make our life more convenient and improve one’s material welfare. First, people always care of material comforts and only after that, we sta