Intelligible Quotes

103 Intelligible quotes by 92 unique authors

I began to study again, and now for the first time really achieved an understanding of the content of the Jew Karl Marx's life effort.… — Adolf Hitler
The spiritual experience of the philosopher is the nourishing soil of philosophy; that without it there is no philosophy; and that, even so, spiritual experience… — Jacques Maritain
Since music is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods,… — Claude Levi-Strauss
Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture. — Anthony Burgess
Our aim as scientists is objective truth; more truth, more interesting truth, more intelligible truth. We cannot reasonably aim at certainty. Once we realize that… — Karl Popper
Complexity is acceptable as long as it is intelligible and necessary. We want to avoid needless complications. — Donald A. Norman
For we cannot adequately understand 'man' as an isolated biological creature, as a bundle of reflexes or a set of instincts, as an 'intelligible field'… — C. Wright Mills
I do not believe in God. It seems to me that theists of all kinds have very largely failed to make their concept of a… — A.J. Ayer
Our reverence for the nobility of manhood will not be lessened by the knowledge that man is in substance and in structure, one with the… — Thomas Huxley
It is the first duty of a hypothesis to be intelligible. — Thomas Huxley
History in Burckhardt's words is 'the record of what one age finds worthy of note in another.' The past is intelligible to us only in… — Edward Hallett Carr
The remarkable insights that science affords us into the intelligible workings of the world cry out for an explanation more profound than that which itself… — John Polkinghorne
People take it for granted that the physical world is both ordered and intelligible. The underlying order in nature - the laws of physics -… — Paul Davies
A work of art is a form that articulates forces, making them intelligible. — Guy Davenport
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… — Ronald Fisher
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… — Ralph Cudworth
Mathematics is, I believe, the chief source of the belief in eternal and exact truth, as well as a sensible intelligible world. — Bertrand Russell
As a composer seeking to remain anonymous I am shy of confessing my musical activity. This is intelligible enough. For others it is their chief… — Alexander Borodin
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,… — George Saintsbury
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… — Richard Cobden

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