Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite ...left out, and the Populace nearly.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them by way of the land of the Philistines, although that was nearer; for God tho...ught, "If the people face war, they may change their minds and return to Egypt."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Be strong, and quit yourselves like men, O ye Philistines, that ye be not servants unto the Hebrews, as they have been to you; qui...t yourselves like men, and fight.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters o...f the uncircumcised triumph.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It will be difficult for me not to make sport for the Philistines by pulling down a house or two, since when I once take pen in ha...nd, I must say what comes uppermost, or fling it away.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Dada hurts. Dada does not jest, for the reason that it was experienced by revolutionary men and not by philistines who demand that... art be a decoration for the mendacity of their own emotions.... I am firmly convinced that all art will become dadaistic in the course of time, because from Dada proceeds the perpetual urge for its renovation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But generally speaking philistinism presupposes a certain advanced state of civilization where throughout the ages certain traditi...ons have accumulated in a heap and have started to stink.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »