“Everything we can measure seems small.”

“Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it.”

“It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it.”

“In the land of small dogs we are all card-sharpers, we do everything in fun: in fun we feed all the small dogs with the crumbs of our feeling; in fun we make out we love every little dog we meet, and no one therefore can love properly in the land of small dogs; there is nothing genuine. Not even falsehood is genuine.”

“Physical strength is measured by what we carry.
Inner strength is measured by what we can bear.”

“Measure the hope of that moment, that feeling. Everything else will be measured against it.”

“Everything is good in due measure and strong sensations know not measure.”

“Everything that can be found in the universe on a large scale is reflected in a human being on a small scale.”

“By things so achingly small are lives measured and marred.”

“We and we alone [the Nazis] have the best social welfare measures. Everything is done for the nation.... The Jews are the incarnation of capitalism.”