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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… — Leslie Stephen
A God out there and values out there, if they existed, would be utterly useless and unintelligible to us. There is nothing to be gained… — Don Cupitt
It doesn't promise to solve or erase suffering but to transform it, pledging that by loving one another, even through pain, we will find more… — Sarah Miles
I marshalled the words and opened my mouth, thinking I would hear them. But all I heard was a kind of rattle, unintelligible even to… — Samuel Beckett
It is never possible for a novelist to deny time inside the fabric of his novel: he must cling, however lightly, to the thread of… — E. M. Forster
While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work [Plato's Republic], I laid it down often to ask myself how it… — Thomas Jefferson
Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds. — Charles Caleb Colton
Women, as they are like riddles in being unintelligible, so generally resemble them in this, that they please us no longer once we know them. — Alexander Pope
It is the task of radical thought, since the world is given to us unintelligibly, to make it more unintelligible, more enigmatic, more fabulous. — Jean Baudrillard
The metaphysical insanities of Athanasius, of Loyola, and of Calvin, are, to my understanding, mere lapses into polytheism, differing from paganism only by being more… — Thomas Jefferson
The foundation of all morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying; to give up pretending to believe that for which there… — Thomas Huxley
The sounds of many were unintelligible and undoubtedly many more called for their parents from whom they were parted by death or by accident. They… — Martin Caidin
Evil is unintelligible. It is just a thing in itself, like boarding a crowded commuter train wearing only a giant boa constrictor. There is no… — Terry Eagleton
The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him. — John Ruskin
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… — Bertrand Russell
Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them; and no man… — Thomas Jefferson
On the surface, an intelligible lie; underneath, the unintelligible truth. — Milan Kundera
[P]hilosophy . . .consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. — Henry Adams
It was not certain what significance the ceremony held... but the formality was no less sacred for it being unintelligible — Mervyn Peake
Don’t feel bad; I regularly reduce people to unintelligible stammers. — Eoin Colfer
Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. — Thomas Jefferson
I didn’t realize I was crying until it was time to say the blinding words. ‘I do,’ I managed to choke out in a nearly… — Stephenie Meyer
Profound hearts, wise minds, take life as God makes it; it is a long trial, and unintelligible preparation for the unknown destiny. — Victor Hugo
An event is not any more intrinsically intelligible or unintelligible because of the pace at which it moves. For a man who does not believe… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
She smiled then, an adorable, sweet smile that took his breath away. He forgot all about trying to maintain an air of civility. His inner… — Maya Banks

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