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What is not intelligible to me is not necessarily unintelligent
— Friedrich Nietzsche
A theory of motivation is defective if it renders intelligible behaviour which is not intelligible.
— Thomas Nagel
Every scientist should, after all, regard it as his duty to tell the public, in a generally intelligible way, about what he is doing
— Konrad Lorenz
My lectures are published and not published; they will be intelligible to those who heard them, and to none beside.
— Aristotle.
The present is only intelligible in the light of the past.
— Richard Chenevix Trench
Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are concerned with the relationship between art and life. Contemporary art is only intelligible in terms of its relationship to our life.
— David Elliott
A good civilization gives the greatest possible scope to the common passions and makes them intelligible among the great number of people.
— Meridel Le Sueur
A myth, in its original Greek meaning- muthos- is simply that: a story, one which seeks to render life transparent to an intelligible source.
— Jules Cashford
Mr. Watson - Come here - I want to see you.[First intelligible words spoken over the telephone] — Alexander Graham Bell
The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.
— Samuel Butler
Great men simplify great principles and make them easily intelligible to ordinary men
— Tunku Abdul Rahman
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.
— Oscar Wilde
God is an intelligible sphere-a sphere known to mind, not to the senses-whose center is everywhere and whose circumference nowhere.
— Joseph Campbell
Christianity has nothing to offer a happy man living in a natural, intelligible universe.
— George H. Smith
The Church must be intelligible to the simple as well as to the shrewd.
— Robert Hugh Benson
If 'bounded by a surface' is the definition of body there cannot be an infinite body either intelligible or sensible.
— Aristotle.
Make evil intelligible, justice desirable, sorrow endurable, and love possible. My hero taught me that, and for once, I don't mean Batman.
— Victor Giannini
Corporate worship is to be intelligible.
— Mark Driscoll
We want to feel that our world is intelligible, so we can be responsible for
— Matthew B. Crawford
... there is an inherent rationality to life that makes it intelligible at a much deeper level than functional utility ...
— Brian Goodwin
I am strong and human with a mouth that works like a man's and a more intelligible brain, and I demand to be heard.
— Caroline George
Why do we write?"To make suffering endurable
To make evil intelligible
To make justice desirable
and . . . to make love possible — Roger Rosenblatt
Perhaps the belief in God is the belief that the universe is intelligible, but not to us.
— Thomas Nagel
It is the first duty of a hypothesis to be intelligible.
— Thomas Huxley
Our lives are not intelligible to us.
— Marty Rubin
With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
— Paul Cezanne
Complexity is acceptable as long as it is intelligible and necessary. We want to avoid needless complications.
— Donald A. Norman
Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
— Martin Heidegger
War is the only sport which is genuinely amusing. And it is the only sport which has any intelligible use.
— H.L. Mencken
Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.
— Oscar Wilde
I like the cover," he said. "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day.
— Douglas Adams
We rely, I think, on landscape photography to make intelligible to us what we already know.
— Robert Adams
Each day we understand better what the Indians say, and they us, so that very often we are intelligible to each other.
— Christopher Columbus
Mathematics is, I believe, the chief source of the belief in eternal and exact truth, as well as a sensible intelligible world.
— Bertrand Russell
Happiness cannot be the reward of virtue; it must be the intelligible consequence of it.
— Walter Lippmann
Personal experience, therefore, is everything in Zen. No ideas are intelligible to those who have no backing of experience.
— D.T. Suzuki
We become adolescents when the words that adults exchange with one another become intelligible to us.
— Natalia Ginzburg
The human mind inherently seeks intelligible order. Thus the conviction that such an order exists to be found is a crucial assumption.
— Nancy Pearcey
There is the silence of age, too full of wisdom for the tongue to utter it in words intelligible to those who have not lived the great range of life.
— Edgar Lee Masters
Translation is not a matter of words only; it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture.
— Anthony Burgess
Keep it simple, make it general, and make it intelligible.
— Douglas McIlroy
