Definition of Intelligible

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Definition of Intelligible
	Intelligible Capable of being understood or comprehended; as, an intelligible account or description; intelligible pronunciation, writing, etc. Related Definitions: Account, An, As, Being, Capable, Comprehended, Description, Intelligible, Of, Or, Pronunciation, Understood, Writing

Intelligible Quotations

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

Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
Martin Heidegger

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

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

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

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

The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.
Samuel Butler

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

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

The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be the return of the sensible finite into the intelligible infinite.
Hans Urs von Balthasar

Intelligible Translations

intelligible in Spanish is inteligible
intelligible in Swedish is begriplig

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