Best Unintelligible Quotes
59 Unintelligible quotes by 48 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.
— John Ruskin
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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
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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
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On the surface, an intelligible lie; underneath, the unintelligible truth.
— Milan Kundera
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[P]hilosophy . . .consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
— Henry Adams
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It was not certain what significance the ceremony held... but the formality was no less sacred for it being unintelligible
— Mervyn Peake
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Don’t feel bad; I regularly reduce people to unintelligible stammers.
— Eoin Colfer
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Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions.
— Thomas Jefferson
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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
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Profound hearts, wise minds, take life as God makes it; it is a long trial, and unintelligible preparation for the unknown destiny.
— Victor Hugo
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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
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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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