Clairval Pondrome Quotes & Sayings

When we laugh we temporarily give ourselves over to the person who makes us laugh. — Robert Orben

Metaphor lives a secret life all around us. We utter about six metaphors a minute. — James Geary

The plan is not what you think. — Loren Eiseley

The greatest poverty is not to live
In a physical world, to feel that one's desire
Is too difficult to tell from despair. — Wallace Stevens

If the resources of different nations are treated as exclusive properties of these nations as wholes, if international economic relations, instead of being relations between individuals, become increasingly relations between whole nations organized as trading bodies, they inevitably become the source of friction and envy between whole nations. — Friedrich August Von Hayek

The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion. — Elizabeth Drew

I wonder at the idleness of tears. — Lizette Woodworth Reese

Ever since the Enlightenment, people thought that we were living in a rational universe. They thought that God was a mathematician and that the function of the scientist was to figure out the mathematical rules whereby the universe was created. — Eric Kandel