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I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible Picture Quote #1

Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems Picture Quote #1

On the surface, an intelligible lie; underneath, the unintelligible truth Picture Quote #1

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

As educational standards decline and pop culture disseminates the inarticulate ravings and unintelligible patois of surfers, jocks, and valley girls, we are turning into a nation of functioning illiterates [...].English itself will steadily decay unless we get back to basics and start to respect our language again Picture Quote #1

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I have never been able to understand why it is that just because I am unintelligible nobody understands me Picture Quote #1

It was not certain what significance the ceremony held... but the formality was no less sacred for it being unintelligible Picture Quote #1

A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by permitting the compositor to make it unintelligible Picture Quote #1

Through all the ways of our unintelligible world, the trivial and the terrible walk hand in hand together Picture Quote #1

If a doctrine is not unintelligible, it has to be vague; and if neither unintelligible nor vague, it has to be unverifiable Picture Quote #1

Intellectuals cannot tolerate the chance event, the unintelligible: they have a nostalgia for the absolute, for a universally comprehensive scheme Picture Quote #1

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Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible Picture Quote #1

All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible Picture Quote #1

To die is to become like a child, at last one knows nothing, nothing of death and nothing of life, only that all distances are equally long and all words unintelligible but beautiful Picture Quote #1

What a thing it is to sit absolutely alone, in the forest, at night, cherished by this wonderful, unintelligible, perfectly innocent speech, the most comforting speech in the world, the talk that rain makes by itself all over the ridges, and the talk of the watercourses everywhere in the hollows! Nobody started it, nobody is going to stop it. It will talk as long as it wants this rain. As long as it talks I am going to listen Picture Quote #1

Regarding mutual tolerance: It is negative in one sense, but positive in another. It absolutely forbids us to be forward in pronouncing on the meaninglessness of forms of existence other than our own; and it commands us to tolerate, respect, and indulge those whom we see harmlessly interested and happy in their own ways, however unintelligible these may be to us. Hands off Picture Quote #1

In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own. It is easier to acquire wealth and power by this combination than by deserving them, and to effect this, they have perverted the purest religion ever preached to man into mystery and jargon, unintelligible to all mankind, and therefore the safer for their purposes Picture Quote #1

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The idea that being human and having rights are equivalent - that rights are inherent - is unintelligible in a Darwinian world Picture Quote #1

On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been quarrelling, fighting, burning and torturing one another, for abstractions unintelligible to themselves and to all others, and absolutely beyond the comprehension of the human mind Picture Quote #1

Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

It is the task of radical thought, since the world is given to us unintelligibly, to make it more unintelligible, more enigmatic, more fabulous Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

When we interpret nature, we refer phenomena that are rarely entirely unintelligible back to something that actually exists, but is equally unintelligible Picture Quote #1

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 grasped their tortured limbs, their tiny burning legs until they were no longer able to stand or run. And then they would crash to the ground where they would writhe in the bubbling tar until death released them from their physical misery Picture Quote #1

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I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible (Unintelligible Quotes) Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems (Unintelligible Quotes) On the surface, an intelligible lie; underneath, the unintelligible truth (Unintelligible Quotes) The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him (Unintelligible Quotes) 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. (Unintelligible Quotes) As educational standards decline and pop culture disseminates the inarticulate ravings and unintelligible patois of surfers, jocks, and valley girls, we are turning into a nation of functioning illiterates [...].English itself will steadily decay unless we get back to basics and start to respect our language again. (Unintelligible Quotes) I have never been able to understand why it is that just because I am unintelligible nobody understands me (Unintelligible Quotes) It was not certain what significance the ceremony held... but the formality was no less sacred for it being unintelligible (Unintelligible Quotes) A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by permitting the compositor to make it unintelligible (Unintelligible Quotes) Through all the ways of our unintelligible world, the trivial and the terrible walk hand in hand together. (Unintelligible Quotes) If a doctrine is not unintelligible, it has to be vague; and if neither unintelligible nor vague, it has to be unverifiable (Unintelligible Quotes) Intellectuals cannot tolerate the chance event, the unintelligible: they have a nostalgia for the absolute, for a universally comprehensive scheme (Unintelligible Quotes) Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible (Unintelligible Quotes) All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible (Unintelligible Quotes) To die is to become like a child, at last one knows nothing, nothing of death and nothing of life, only that all distances are equally long and all words unintelligible but beautiful (Unintelligible Quotes) What a thing it is to sit absolutely alone, in the forest, at night, cherished by this wonderful, unintelligible, perfectly innocent speech, the most comforting speech in the world, the talk that rain makes by itself all over the ridges, and the talk of the watercourses everywhere in the hollows! Nobody started it, nobody is going to stop it. It will talk as long as it wants this rain. As long as it talks I am going to listen (Unintelligible Quotes) Regarding mutual tolerance: It is negative in one sense, but positive in another. It absolutely forbids us to be forward in pronouncing on the meaninglessness of forms of existence other than our own; and it commands us to tolerate, respect, and indulge those whom we see harmlessly interested and happy in their own ways, however unintelligible these may be to us. Hands off (Unintelligible Quotes) In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own. It is easier to acquire wealth and power by this combination than by deserving them, and to effect this, they have perverted the purest religion ever preached to man into mystery and jargon, unintelligible to all mankind, and therefore the safer for their purposes (Unintelligible Quotes) The idea that being human and having rights are equivalent - that rights are inherent - is unintelligible in a Darwinian world. (Unintelligible Quotes) On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been quarrelling, fighting, burning and torturing one another, for abstractions unintelligible to themselves and to all others, and absolutely beyond the comprehension of the human mind (Unintelligible Quotes) Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling (Unintelligible Quotes) 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 (Unintelligible Quotes) It is the task of radical thought, since the world is given to us unintelligibly, to make it more unintelligible, more enigmatic, more fabulous (Unintelligible Quotes) 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 (Unintelligible Quotes) Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds (Unintelligible Quotes) 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 (Unintelligible Quotes) 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 (Unintelligible Quotes) 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 (Unintelligible Quotes) When we interpret nature, we refer phenomena that are rarely entirely unintelligible back to something that actually exists, but is equally unintelligible (Unintelligible Quotes) 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 grasped their tortured limbs, their tiny burning legs until they were no longer able to stand or run. And then they would crash to the ground where they would writhe in the bubbling tar until death released them from their physical misery (Unintelligible Quotes)

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