Life Quote by Smith III, Ted J

“Those will realize, who are capable of reflection, that the reality which excites us is an idea, of which the indirection, the veiling, the…

— Smith III, Ted J

“...if one civilized man were doomed to pass a dozen years amid a race of intractable savages, unless he had power to improve them,…

— Anne Brontë

“What, more realistically, is this “mutation,” the “new man”? He is the rootless man, discontinuous with a past that Nihilism has destroyed, the raw…

— Seraphim Rose

“It was civilization itself which inflicted this wound upon modern man. Once the increase of empirical knowledge, and more exact modes of thought, made…

— Friedrich von Schiller

“The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which all creatures are the…

— Henri-Frédéric Amiel

“So at midnight, the heart of the metropolis of modern civilization was secretly trod by this jaunty barbarian in broadcloth; a sort of prophetical…

— Herman Melville

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

“Who but a stupid barbarian could burn so much beauty in his stove and destroy that which he cannot make? Man is endowed with…

— Anton Chekhov

“The mass of mankind is divided into two classes, the Sancho Panzas who have a sense for reality, but no ideals, and the Don…

— George Santayana

“Now, nothing annoys an angry savage or an uneducated person so much as the perfect coolness of a civilized and cultivated man when he…

— Grant Allen

“That is the fantastic intolerable paradox of my life, that I have gone questing for what I possessed initially -- a belief to invest…

— Milton Steinberg

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