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The Cultivated philistine (n.) takes ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠for culture a phlegmatic lack of all feeling for culture.

A Cultivated philistine (n.) finds ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠identical reproductions of himself everywhere and infers from that sameness a unity of style, and so a German culture.

A Cultivated philistine (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the philistine with one superstition added: he fancies himself a son of the muses and a man of culture.

The Cultivated philistine (n.) of ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the historical-aesthetic kind, the up-to-the-minute babbler about state, church and art who appreciates everything, is the insatiable stomach that does not know honest hunger and thirst.

A Cultivated philistine (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a negative being even in his hatred, for he denies, secretes, stops his ears and averts his eyes, and gathers a system of un-culture with a sort of unity of style.

The Cultivated philistine (n.) [Bildungsphilister] ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠was the word coined in the first direct attack on German Bildung — the Bildung celebrated as conqueror of France — and it entered everyday language.