“The most difficult thing to adjust to, apparently, is peace and contentment.”
Source: Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch (1957), p. 28
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The last letter from Mordecai Anielewicz , April 23 1943, written to Yitzhak Cukierman. [M.Kann], Na oczach swiata, ("In The Eyes of the World"), Zamosc, 1932 [i.e. Warszawa, 1943], pp. 33-34.
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Space—Time—Matter (1952)
Context: It is the nature of a real thing to be inexhaustible in content; we can get an ever deeper insight into this content by the continual addition of new experiences, partly in apparent contradiction, by bringing them into harmony with one another. In this interpretation, things of the real world are approximate ideas. From this arises the empirical character of all our knowledge of reality.
“Sometimes simple things are the most difficult things to achieve.”
“The most difficult thing is not to want anything.”
1960's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde' (1965 - 1969)
Source: Sun and Steel (1968), p. 57.
“People are the most difficult thing in the world to change”
Source: Oh My Goth
“According to the proverb, the best things are the most difficult.”
Moralia, Of the Training of Children
“The most difficult thing to reconcile is science and religion”
As quoted in "A close encounter with Chris Carter" at Salon (28 April 2000) http://www.salon.com/2000/04/28/chriscarter/
Context: The most difficult thing to reconcile is science and religion … And so we created a
dilemma for her character that plays right into Mulder’s hands. So that cross she wears,
which was there from the pilot episode, is all-important for a character who is torn
between her rational character and her spiritual side. That is, I think, a very smart
thing to do. The show is basically a religious show. It’s about the search for God. You
know, "The truth is out there." That’s what it’s about.
