Affliction Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

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

When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

PHILISTINE, n. One whose mind is the creature of its environment, following the fashion in thought, feeling and sentiment. He is sometimes learned, frequently…

— Ambrose Bierce

Once a person has all the things they need to live, everything else is entertainment.

— Neal Stephenson

The wonder is that so many OCDs manage to live productive lives, just the same. They work, they eat (often not enough or too…

— Stephen King

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

“Unfortunately, psychology has not adequately come to grips with the difficult subject of entertainment (or with its opposite, boredom). Despite a few initial efforts…

— Thomas Gilovich

Some are cursed with the fullness of satiety; and how can they bear the ills of life when its very pleasures fatigue them?

— Charles Caleb Colton

You can put all your philistine-dom on TV.

— Jesse Armstrong

There's a part of every person that is entertained by the idealistic, the fantastic.

— Aisha Tyler

A utopia cannot, by definition, include boredom, but the 'utopia' we are living in is boring.

— Anonymous

Most people cant' deal with reality, but indulge heavily in fantasy and fear.

— Betty Shabazz