Difficult

Famous quotes containing the word difficult:

“It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.”
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)

“The human plagiarism which is most difficult to avoid, for individuals ... is the plagiarism of ourself.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)

“To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is the merest decency. But it is from the far more difficult achievement of seeing ourselves amongst others, as a local example of the forms human life has locally taken, a case among cases, a world among worlds, that the largeness of mind, without which objectivity is self- congratulation and tolerance a sham, comes.”
—Clifford Geertz (b. 1926)