A Quote by Franz Grillparzer

When we interpret nature, we refer phenomena that are rarely entirely unintelligible back to something that actually exists, but is equally unintelligible.

Franz Grillparzer

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Franz Grillparzer
Austrian - Poet
January 15, 1791 - January 21, 1872

Just as the highest and the lowest notes are equally inaudible, so perhaps, is the greatest sense and the greatest nonsense equally unintelligible.

Alan Watts

If acorns start growing into theologians, or if women begin turning into pillars of salt, then we may wish to hypothesize about a supernatural influence. But until such time as nature becomes hopelessly unintelligible and unpredictable, we need look no further than nature itself for explanations.

George H. Smith

I have found Christian dogma unintelligible.

Benjamin Franklin

Unintelligible language is a lantern without a light.

Samuel Johnson

I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

Jane Austen

Metaphor is halfway between the unintelligible and the commonplace.

Aristotle

Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

Henry Adams

On the surface, an intelligible lie; underneath, the unintelligible truth.

Milan Kundera

Don’t feel bad; I regularly reduce people to unintelligible stammers.

Eoin Colfer

Atheism is based upon a materialist philosophy, which holds that nothing exists but natural phenomena. There are no supernatural forces or entities, nor can there be any. Nature simply exists.

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions.

Thomas Jefferson

[P]hilosophy . . .consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

Henry Adams

Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible.

H. L. Mencken

In the labyrinth of a difficult text, we find unmarked forks in the path, detours, blind alleys, loops that deliver us back to our point of entry, and finally the monster who whispers an unintelligible truth in our ears.