Any test that turns on what is offensive to the community's standards is too loose, too capricious, too destructive of freedom of… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
A great affliction of all Philistines is that idealities afford them no entertainment, but to escape from boredom they are always in… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The society of the Culture-Philistines makes life a burden to exceptional men. — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
When temptation comes your way, name that boastful, deceitful giant “Goliath!” and do with it as David did to the Philistine of… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
I started to shed the monstrous aesthetic affectation of my youth so as to make room for the monstrous philistine postures of… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
It has been wisely said, "that well may thy guardian angel suffer thee to lose thy locks, when thou darest wilfully to… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society. — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
No difference exists between American and European manners. A proletarian from Chicago can be just as Philistine as an English duke. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Philistine - a word which I understand properly to denote indifference to the higher intellectual interests. The word may also be defined,… — Leslie Stephen Copy Share Image
Why can't the black man have a God? What's so wrong when a black man says his God will protect him form… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Prig and philistine, Ph.D. and C.P.A., despot of English 218c and big shot of the Kiwanis Club-how much, at bottom, they both… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
Social science and humanities ... have a mutual contempt for one another, the former looking down on the latter as unscientific, the… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
There is nothing more vulgar than a petty bourgeois life with its halfpence, its victuals, its futile talk, and its useless conventional… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Al forms of consensus about ''great'' books and ''perennial'' problems, once stabilized, tend to deteriorate eventually into something philistine. The real life… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of Philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
You know, the Philistines have long since discarded the rack and stake as a means of suppressing the opinions they feared: they've… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed. Any prelude or fugue of Bach can be played… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think a more complex idea of fiction - and the human self's relationship with the world - emerges when we abandon… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“The suicide committed by Sampson was partly determined by the craftiness of Delilah and partly decided by the disobedience of Sampson. Satan… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the chosen… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Here is an example to help you understand the efficacy of the Rosary. You remember the story of David who vanquished Goliath.… — Columba Marmion Copy Share Image
PHILISTINE, n. One whose mind is the creature of its environment, following the fashion in thought, feeling and sentiment. He is sometimes… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
You all have learned reliance On the sacred teachings of Science, So I hope, through life, you will never decline In spite… — Cole Porter Copy Share Image
That is another chamber of my heart that shows no electrical activity - the chamber that used to flicker into life when… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
