Top Intelligible Quotes
The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.
Samuel Butler
Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
Martin Heidegger
It has been one of my difficulties, in arguing this question out of doors with friends or strangers, that I rarely find any intelligible agreement as to the object of the war.
Richard Cobden
The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure mathematics that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence.
James Joseph Sylvester
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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Mortimer Adler 
Kenneth L. Pike 
Arnold J. Toynbee 
Richard Cobden 
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Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.
Anthony Hope 
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The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be the return of the sensible finite into the intelligible infinite.
Hans Urs von Balthasar
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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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As our bodies live upon the earth and find sustenance in the fruits which it produces, so our minds feed on the same truths as the intelligible and immutable substance of the divine Word contains.
Nicolas Malebranche
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We have the duty of formulating, of summarizing, and of communicating our conclusions, in intelligible form, in recognition of the right of other free minds to utilize them in making their own decisions.
Ronald Fisher
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That the sun will not rise to-morrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise.
David Hume
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For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Unless you are a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.
Anthony Hope
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Samuel ButlerArthur SchopenhauerThomas HuxleyPaul CezanneDavid HumeWalter BagehotMortimer AdlerMilan KunderaKenneth L. PikeMartin HeideggerRichard Cobden
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