Intelligibility Quotes

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“Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and Meaningful.”

“With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.”

“One out of the one Intelligible world; he is stationed in the middle of the Intelligible Powers, according to the strictest sense.”

“For this reason I believe that the light of the Sun bears the same relation to things visible as Truth does to things intelligible.”

“Space is not an empty homogeneous medium, but full of intricate differences, intelligible and real, though not with our common reality.”

“Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.”

“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.”

“The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure mathematics that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence.”

“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.”

“If the potential of every number is in the monad, then the monad would be intelligible number in the strict sense, since it is not yet manifesting anything actual, but everything conceptually together in it.”

“For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.”

“The difficulty, as in all this work, is to find a notation which is both concise and intelligible to at least two people of whom one may be the author.”

“These are no doubt more methodical and complete, but are intelligible only after a little preliminary experience. The entire aim of these notes is to help the beginner acquire this preliminary experience a little faster.”

“Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.”

“That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise.”

“Few are good for much; the conceits have not even the merit of being intelligible: it would perhaps be difficult to select three passages that we should care to read again.”

“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.”

“Those in the crossing must in the end know what is mistaken by all urging for intelligibility: that every thinking of being, all philosophy can never be confirmed by “facts”, i.e. beings Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.”