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Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. ↗

— Henry Adams

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If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology is pronounced to be a collection of meaningless words about unintelligible chimeras, then I have no doubt, and I think few people doubt. ↗

— Leslie Stephen

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The marvelous thing is that even in studying linguistics, we find that the universe as a whole is patterned, ordered, and to some degree intelligible to us. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

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Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end. ↗

— Milan Kundera

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The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him. ↗

— John Ruskin

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If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true. ↗

— Ralph Cudworth

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Unless you are a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible. ↗

— Anthony Hope

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I find the selectivity of erotic love - the choice of this man or this woman - much more intelligible if liking the person is the origin of sexual interest, rather than the other way. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

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I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible. ↗

— Jane Austen

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