Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.
I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
We measure our enjoyments by the sum expended.
It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes.
To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.