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As our bodies live upon the earth and find sustenance in the fruits which it produces, so our minds feed on the same truths as the intelligible and immutable substance of the divine Word contains. ↗

— Nicolas Malebranche

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

— Milan Kundera

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The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him. ↗

— John Ruskin

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Unless you are a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible. ↗

— Anthony Hope

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I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible. ↗

— Jane Austen

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Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy. ↗

— Martin Heidegger

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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

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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

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