Clean Quote by Ambrose Bierce

A philistine is a full-grown person whose interests are of a material and commonplace nature, and whose mentality is formed of the stock ideas…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Philistine - a word which I understand properly to denote indifference to the higher intellectual interests. The word may also be defined, however, as…

— Leslie Stephen

A man who has no mental needs, because his intellect is of the narrow and normal amount, is, in the strict sense of the…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the chosen people, of…

— Matthew Arnold

A great affliction of all Philistines is that idealities afford them no entertainment, but to escape from boredom they are always in need of…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Philistinism! - We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.

— Matthew Arnold

It's extraordinary to think that if you walked into a room and said you had never heard of Hamlet, you would be regarded as…

— Robert Winston

Philologists, who chase A painting syllable through time and space Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark, To Gaul, to Greece,…

— William Cowper

You can put all your philistine-dom on TV.

— Jesse Armstrong

To philosophize means to make vivid.

— Novalis

It is characteristic of the barbarian ... to insist upon seeing a thing "as it is." The desire testifies that he has nothing in…

— Richard M. Weaver

The act of philosophizing involves the character of the philosopher.

— Jacques Maritain