Unintelligibility Quotes

#1. Nevertheless, the ultimate business of philosophy is to preserve the force of the most elemental words in which Dasein expresses itself, and to keep the common understanding from levelling them off to that unintelligibility which functions in turn as a source of pseudo-problems.

Martin Heidegger

#2. Milton's learned vocabulary [ ... ] and his distant perspectives, represent the authoritative unintelligibility of the parents' speech as heard by the child.

John Broadbent

#3. It is the task of radical thought, since the world is given to us in unintelligibility, to make it more unintelligible, more enigmatic, more fabulous.

Jean Baudrillard

#4. Most valuable art in our time has been experienced by audiences as a move into silence (or unintelligibility or invisibility or inaudibility); a dismantling of the artist's competence, his responsible sense of vocation - and therefore as an aggression against them. Modern

Susan Sontag

#5. Artists make art ... everyone else talks about it.

Paul Russo

#6. Be the prettiest book I ever seen. The cover is pale blue, color a the sky. And a big white bird - a peace dove - spreads its wings from end to end.

Kathryn Stockett

#7. The residents blamed the "Gahmen", naturally. Since the explosion of social media, those "Gahmen" guys have been blamed for everything from HDB flat prices to the price of oil, climate change, the shortage of Hello Kitty dolls and kids not clearing their trays away at hawker centres.

Neil Humphreys

#8. The problem with our sense of justice is we always seemed to be kind to beautiful and attractive criminals.

M.F. Moonzajer

#9. I will only add, in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the sex, imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well informed themselves to desire anything more in woman than ignorance.

Jane Austen

#10. I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.

Daniel Day-Lewis

#11. He isn't fighting for you. He's fighting for Ourea. For yakona. For everything that lives within a lichgate. - Kara

S.M. Boyce

#12. But fear isn't a quiet pet that stays in a cage in the back room. Rather, as termites undermine the internal workings of a structure until it collapses from within, fear spreads to every part of your life unless you deal with it.

Amy Layne Litzelman

#13. Your smoldering might eventually kill me, Will. And the best thing is I think you have no clue that you look at women this way.

Christina Lauren

#14. I have not skillFrom such a sharp and waspish word as "No"To pluck the sting.

Henry Taylor