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Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. ↗

— Henry Adams

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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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One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name. ↗

— George Saintsbury

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Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy. ↗

— Martin Heidegger

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We see things in this material world, wherein our bodies dwell, only because our mind through its attention lives in another world, only because it contemplates the beauties of the archetypal and intelligible world which Reason contains. ↗

— Nicolas Malebranche

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

— Anthony Hope

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