“Indeed, the more we find to love, the more we add to the measure of our hearts.”
Source: The Black Cauldron
The Realm of the Nebulae (1936)
“Indeed, the more we find to love, the more we add to the measure of our hearts.”
Source: The Black Cauldron
“The scale we measure things by is the measure of our own mind.”
Der Maßstab, den wir an die Dinge legen, ist das Maß unseres eigenen Geistes.
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 52.
in his memoirs, as quoted by [Jean Matricon, G. Waysand, Charles Glashausser, The cold wars: a history of superconductivity, Rutgers University Press, 2003, 0813532957, 18]
1848 (quoted in Infections and Inequalities by Paul Farmer, page 1.
Don Orsino (1891)
Epitaph he composed for himself a few months before he died, as quoted in Calculusː Multivariable (2006) by Steven G. Krantz and Brian E. Blank. p. 126
Unsourced variant: I used to measure the Heavens, now I measure the shadows of Earth. The mind belonged to Heaven, the body's shadow lies here.
“God is a concept by which we measure our pain.”
"God"
Lyrics, John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band (1970)