All 4 Uses of
philistine
in
Man And Superman
- Romance and Asceticism, Amorism and Puritanism are equally unreal in the great Philistine world.†
Chpt Ded. *
- Well, if you insist on asking me why I behave in this absurd way, I can only reply that you asked me to, and that in any case my treatment of the subject may be valid for the artist, amusing to the amateur, and at least intelligible and therefore possibly suggestive to the Philistine.†
Chpt Ded.
- [interrupting him] Tsh-sh: you are a Philistine, Henry: you have no romance in you.†
Chpt 3
- I thanked him for teaching me to use my eyes and ears; but I told him that his beauty worshipping and happiness hunting and woman idealizing was not worth a dump as a philosophy of life; so he called me Philistine and went his way.†
Chpt 3
Definition:
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(philistine) a person who is uninterested in artistic and intellectual pursuits and values