Any theory which causes solipsism to seem just as likely an explanation for the phenomena it seeks to describe ought to be held in the utmost suspicion.
I have never been able to soothe myself with the sugary delusions of religion; for these things stand convicted of the utmost absurdity in light of modern scientific knowledge.
The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.
I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain.
To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.
My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.
I am always willing to run some hazard of being tedious, in order to be sure that I am perspicuous; and, after taking the utmost pains that I can to be perspicuous, some obscurity may still appear to remain upon a subject, in its own nature extremely abstracted.
The imposition of taxes has its limits. There is a maximum which cannot be transcended. Suppose the citizen to be taxed by the general government to the utmost extent of his ability, or a thing as much as it can possibly bear, and the state imposes a tax at the same time, which authority is to take it?
If one extends knowledge to the utmost, one will have wisdom. Having wisdom, one can then make choices.
Unnecessary hustle is one of the American follies. We hustle at both work and play, and consequently enjoy neither to the utmost.
you once said to would like to sit beside me while I write. Listen in that case I could not write at all. For writing means revealing one self to excess; that utmost of self-revelation and surrender, in which a human being, when involved with others, would feel he was losing himself, and from which, therefore, he will always shrink as long as he is in his right mind. . . That is why one can never be alone enough when one writes, why there can never be enough silence around one when one writes, why even night is not night enough.
Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to reason, and how to ridicule; taking the utmost care never to apply those arts improperly.
I think all of us, politicians and churchmen, should do our utmost to change the society so that there would be no need for violence.
I believe in the utmost importance of one human being's actions toward another. This is actually what I believe in. How we handle one another, that's what makes us feel isolated, feel like outsiders sometimes. These questions are overwhelming. "What do you do in this world?" I believe in that more than anything.
Don't get me wrong, I have the utmost respect for anyone who has the nerve to even attempt to do music today, but this is just about what excites me.
What distinguishes the language of science from language as we ordinarily understand the word?. . . What science strives for is an utmost acuteness and clarity of concepts as regards their mutual relation and their correspondence to sensory data.
I want to express the utmost intensity of the color, bring out the quality, make it expressive.
Until I did my work and I did my utmost best, I feel like I don't have a right to feel excited.
No man has a right to disturb the public peace, by personally resisting the execution of a law however bad. He ought to acquiesce, using at the same time the utmost powers of his reason, to promote its repeal.