Quotes About Intelligibility

A conviction akin to religious feeling of the rationality or intelligibility of the world lies behind all scientific work of a high order.

Human history has no unique pattern of intelligibility.

Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.

With the reference to the indispensable third person (an audience), Freud relates the demand for intelligibility to the demand for communication. The implication is that art has the function of making public the contents of the unconscious.

So it is with you. Unless you speak intelligible words with your tongue, how will anyone know what you are saying? You will just be speaking into the air.