Philistine

Famous quotes containing the word philistine:

“If one defends the bourgeois, philistine virtues, one does not defend them merely from the demonism or bohemianism of the artist but from the present bourgeoisie itself.”
—Lionel Trilling (1905–1975)

“You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him; for you are just a boy, and he has been a warrior from his youth. .”
—Bible: Hebrew, 1 Samuel 17:33.

Saul to David, about Goliath.

“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 and conventional ideals of his or her group and time.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)