“The scale we measure things by is the measure of our own mind.”
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830–1916) Austrian writer
Der Maßstab, den wir an die Dinge legen, ist das Maß unseres eigenen Geistes.
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 52.
“Freedom is not a measure of grain to be placed on the scale, but the falcon that soars above the field of Sinj.”
Furmani-Sokolov let, 2011, short story Hajduk Ivo
Freedom
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