"Eine unglückliche Verdrehung muss im Gehirne des gebildeten Philisters vor sich gegangen sein: er hält gerade das, wa…"

"Nobody, however, is more disliked by [the Culture-Philistine] than the man who regards him as a Philistine, and tells…"

"In order to be able thus to misjudge, and thus to grant left-handed veneration to our classics, people must have ceas…"

"[The Philistine] opposed the restless creative spirit that animates the artist, by means of a certain smug ease—the e…"

"These smug ones [The Philistines] now once and for all sought to escape from the yoke of these dubious classics and t…"

"I will make an attempt to attain freedom, the youthful soul says to itself; and is it to be hindered in this by the f…"

"Niemand kann dir die Brücke bauen, auf der gerade du über den Fluß des Lebens schreiten mußt, niemand außer dir allein."

"[The Philistines] only devised the notion of an epigone-age in order to secure peace for themselves, and to be able t…"

"In this way, a philosophy which veiled the Philistine confessions of its founder beneath neat twists and flourishes o…"

"Mag wohl die Verwechselung in jenem Wahne des Bildungsphilisters daher rühren, dass er überall das gleichförmige Gepr…"