#intelligible

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. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#effect #fault #gives #hardly #him

Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful. ↗

— Dieter Rams

#good #great #intelligible #making #meaningful

I find the selectivity of erotic love - the choice of this man or this woman - much more intelligible if liking the person is the origin of sexual interest, rather than the other way. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

#find #i #intelligible #interest #liking

I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible. ↗

— Jane Austen

#enough #i #speak #unintelligible #well

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

#anywhere #best #government #hardly #intelligible

We see things in this material world, wherein our bodies dwell, only because our mind through its attention lives in another world, only because it contemplates the beauties of the archetypal and intelligible world which Reason contains. ↗

— Nicolas Malebranche

#archetypal #attention #beauties #because #bodies

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. ↗

— James Joseph Sylvester

#human intelligence #intelligence #intelligible #laws #mathematics

We have the duty of formulating, of summarizing, and of communicating our conclusions, in intelligible form, in recognition of the right of other free minds to utilize them in making their own decisions. ↗

— Ronald Fisher

#conclusions #decisions #duty #form #formulating

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

#evolution #fashion #history #i #i believe

Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. ↗

— Henry Adams

#insoluble #insoluble problems #philosophy #problems #unintelligible