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Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. -- Henry Adams
Unintelligible language is a lantern without a light. -- Samuel Johnson
I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible. -- Jane Austen
The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him. -- John Ruskin
The idea that being human and having rights are equivalent - that rights are inherent - is unintelligible in a Darwinian world. -- Tom Stoppard
Only a completely unintelligible God can be said to be absolutely good and absolutely powerful yet tolerate the world as it is. -- Hans Jonas
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 context which would make it explicable. -- Terry Eagleton
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 able to give a definition that had any meaning at all. -- Bertrand Russell
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 be a collection of meaningless words about unintelligible chimeras, then I have no doubt, and I think few people doubt. -- Leslie Stephen
I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. -- Benjamin Franklin
Metaphor is halfway between the unintelligible and the commonplace. -- Aristotle
Don't feel bad; I regularly reduce people to unintelligible stammers. -- Eoin Colfer
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
Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. -- Thomas Jefferson
I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies. -- Benjamin Franklin
Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible. -- H. L. Mencken
Let's face it, the human eye is clumsy, sloppy, and unintelligible when compared to the camera's eye. -- Robert Smithson
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by permitting the compositor to make it unintelligible. -- Ambrose Bierce
I always choose to use the word often instead of (unintelligible). Just changing it up, changing it up. -- Hayden Panettiere
Through all the ways of our unintelligible world, the trivial and the terrible walk hand in hand together. -- Wilkie Collins
Any system that is deprived of its natural volatility, with government up (unintelligible) volatile, any system becomes very fragile. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I have never been able to understand why it is that just because I am unintelligible nobody understands me. -- Milton Mayer
Intellectuals cannot tolerate the chance event, the unintelligible: they have a nostalgia for the absolute, for a universally comprehensive scheme. -- Raymond Aron
It was not certain what significance the ceremony held... but the formality was no less sacred for it being unintelligible -- Mervyn Peake
Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Profound hearts, wise minds, take life as God makes it; it is a long trial, and unintelligible preparation for the unknown destiny. -- Victor Hugo
When we interpret nature, we refer phenomena that are rarely entirely unintelligible back to something that actually exists, but is equally unintelligible. -- Franz Grillparzer
The authors of the gospels were unlettered and ignorant men and the teachings of Jesus have come to us mutilated, misstated and unintelligible. -- Thomas Jefferson
Just as the highest and the lowest notes are equally inaudible, so perhaps, is the greatest sense and the greatest nonsense equally unintelligible. -- Alan Watts
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
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
That blessed mood in which the burthen of the mystery, in which the heavy and the weary weight of all this unintelligible world is lightened. -- William Wordsworth
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The rules are simple and easily understood by anyone who has once seen the game, but to the totally uninitiated they appear to be hopelessly unintelligible. -- John Adams Gilmer
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 unintelligible. -- Thomas Jefferson
Fear of death, wonder at the causes of chance events or unintelligible happenings, hope for divine aid and gratitude for good fortune, cooperated to generate religious belief. -- Will Durant
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 me who knew what was intended. -- Samuel Beckett
Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today how can peoples of different appearance, mutually unintelligible languages, and dissimilar ways of life get along peaceably together -- Clyde Kluckhohn
More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot understand; indeed, admire that which has no meaning or principle. -- Eric Hoffer

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