“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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Mordechai Anielewicz (1919–1943) Leader of the Jewish Combat Organization
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.
Hermann Weyl (1885–1955) German mathematician
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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.”
Keanu Reeves (1964) Canadian actor, director, producer and musician
“The most difficult thing is not to want anything.”
Bram van Velde (1895–1981) Dutch painter
1960's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde' (1965 - 1969)
“People are the most difficult thing in the world to change”
Gena Showalter (1975) American writer
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“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”
Chris Carter (1956) American television and film producer, director and writer
As quoted in "A close encounter with Chris Carter" at Salon (28 April 2000) http://www.salon.com/2000/04/28/chriscarter/ <br class="br">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.
