“ The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other. ”
- Walter Bagehot- Copy
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“ The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
- 706
“ Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
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“ As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious. ”
- Albert Schweitzer- Copy
- 407
“ 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 as to the object of the war. ”
- Richard Cobden- Copy
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“ Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty — excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable — should persist after the beauty was gone. ”
- Mary Arnim- Copy
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“ It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived — forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position. ”
- Soren Kierkegaard- Copy
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“ A man must cling to the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible; otherwise he would not try to fathom it. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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“ The people who are always monkeying with these great books to make them fully (comprehensible) have no friend in me, for in their realm the fully comprehensible is not worth comprehending. ”
- Robertson Davies- Copy
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“ You've got your phenomenon on one hand. Concrete and knowable. On the other hand you've got the incomprehensible. You call it God, but to me, God or no, it remains just that, the unknowable. ”
- Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess- Copy
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“ The older I get, the more I believe in what I can't explain or understand, even more than the things that are explainable and understandable. ”
- Lillian Gish- Copy
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“ Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness. ”
- Carl Jung- Copy
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“ This is the nature of genius, to be able to grasp the knowable even when no one else recognizes that it is present. ”
- Deepak Chopra- Copy
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“ Enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal which takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite, intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice. ”
- Arnold J. Toynbee- Copy
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“ Enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal which takes the imagination by storm, and sec ond, a definite, intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice. ”
- Arnold J. Toynbee- Copy
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“ Happiness implied a choice, and within that choice a concerted will, a lucid desire. ”
- Albert Camus- Copy
- 86
“ Great works of art are only great because they are accessible and comprehensible to everyone. ”
- Leo Tolstoy- Copy
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“ Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy. ”
- Martin Heidegger- Copy
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“ The Church must be intelligible to the simple as well as to the shrewd. ”
- Robert Hugh Benson- Copy
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“ If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics. It does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, as long as there is enough of them. ”
- Lewis Carroll- Copy
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“ Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young. ”
- Thomas Huxley- Copy
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“ Unless you are a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible. ”
- Anthony Hope- Copy
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“ That the sun will not rise to-morrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise. ”
- David Hume- Copy
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“ With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public. ”
- Paul Cezanne- Copy
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“ The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science. ”
- Samuel Butler- Copy
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“ Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought-forms of that setting. ”
- Francis Schaeffer- Copy
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“ Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it. ”
- Robert Wilson- Copy
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