I wrote a bunch of stuff, but then I deleted it and decided to just copy someone better at wording than me:

  There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy

I view materialism much like Newtonian physics. It's a fine approximation for the situations you'll face almost all the time. I just choose not to wear it like a set of blinders, because I don't want to deny the evidence of my senses when they don't fit it.