Vulgar

• “Because he never raises his eyes to the great and the meaningful, the philistine has taken experience as his gospel. It has become for him a message about life's commonness. But he has never grasped that there exists something other than experience, that there are values—inexperienceable—which we serve.”

• “Nothing is so hateful to the philistine as the "dreams of his youth." ... For what appeared to him in his dreams was the voice of the spirit, calling him once, as it does everyone. It is of this that youth always reminds him, eternally and ominously. That is why he is antagonistic toward youth.”

• “To the Philistine, art is fancy dress for everyday toil and trouble. He snaps at ornaments like a dog at sausage.”

• “Philistinism implies not only a collection of stock ideas but also the use of set phrases, clichés, banalities expressed in faded words. A true philistine has nothing but these trivial ideas of which he entirely consists.”

• “The Philistine … is a man without intellectual needs. Now it follows from this that, as regards himself, he is left without any intellectual pleasures in accordance with the principle, il n’est pas de vrais plaisirs qu’avec de vrais besoins [There are no true pleasures without true needs].”

• “A great affliction of all Philistines is that idealities afford them no entertainment, but to escape from boredom they are always in need of realities.”

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Vulgar across IJR

Family guide

Cast & crew

SSantiago RiveroDirectorKatrina Kreileas AngelikaGabriel Agüeroas SimonGailė Butvilaitėas NormaĀris Matesovičsas Dairis