Charles Fort Quotes

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• People with a psychological need to believe in marvels are no more prejudiced and gullible than people with a psychological need not to believe in marvels.

  Charles Fort

  Believe, Psychological Needs, People

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• The Earth is a farm. We are someone else's property.

  Charles Fort

  Earth, Property, Farms

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• My liveliest interest is not so much in things, as in relations of things. I have spent much time thinking about the alleged pseudo-relations that are called coincidences. What if some of them should not be coincidences?

  Charles Fort

  Thinking, What If, Pseudo

  Charles Fort (2008). “The Book of the Damned: The Collected Works of Charles Fort”, p.846, Penguin

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• Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with merely numerically adding to my stores. Other times I have joys, when unexpectedly coming upon an outrageous story that may not be altogether a lie, or upon a macabre little thing that may make some reviewer of my more or less good works mad. But always there is present a feeling of unexplained relations of events that I note, and it is this far-away, haunting, or often taunting, awareness, or suspicion, that keeps me piling on.

  Charles Fort

  Lying, Data, Mad

  Charles Fort (2014). “Wild Talents”, p.35, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• If there is a true universal mind, must it be sane?

  Charles Fort

  Mind, Sane, Universal

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• I think, therefore I'm going to have breakfast.

  Charles Fort

  Thinking, Breakfast

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• Almost all people are hypnotics. The proper authority saw to it that the proper belief should be induced, and the people believed properly.

  Charles Fort

  Hypnosis, People, Deceit

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• When we come upon assurances that a mystery has been solved, we go on investigating.

  Charles Fort

  Goes On, Mystery, Assurance

  Charles Fort (2014). “Lo!”, p.85, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• [Wise men] have tried to understand our state of being, by grasping at its stars, or its arts, or its economics. But, if there is an underlying oneness of all things, it does not matter where we begin, whether with stars, or laws of supply and demand, or frogs, or Napoleon Bonaparte. One measures a circle, beginning anywhere.

  Charles Fort

  Wise, Art, Stars

  Charles Fort (2014). “LO!”, p.5, Lulu.com

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• In measuring a circle, one begins anywhere.

  Charles Fort

  Circles, Measuring

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• One can't learn much and also be comfortable One can't learn much and let anybody else be comfortable

  Charles Fort

  Comfortable

  Charles Fort (2014). “Wild Talents”, p.44, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• The outrageous is the reasonable, if introduced politely.

  Charles Fort

  Reasonable, Outrageous, Ifs

  Charles Fort (2016). “The Book of the Damned: The Original Classic of Paranormal Exploration”, p.19, Penguin

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• I shut the front door upon Christ and Einstein, and at the back door hold out a welcoming hand to little frogs and periwinkles. I believe nothing of my own that I have ever written. I cannot accept that the products of minds are subject-matter for beliefs.

  Charles Fort

  Believe, Doors, Hands

  Charles Fort (2014). “LO!”, p.15, Lulu.com

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• A procession of the damned. By the damned, I mean the excluded. We shall have a procession of data that Science has excluded.

  Charles Fort

  Mean, Data, Forts

  Charles Fort (2013). “The Complete Books of Charles Fort”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• It is not possible to define. Nothing has ever been finally found out. Because there is nothing final to find out.

  Charles Fort

  Finals, Found

  Charles Fort (2016). “The Book of the Damned: The Original Classic of Paranormal Exploration”, p.15, Penguin

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• The fittest survive. What is meant by the fittest? Not the strongest; not the cleverest - weakness and stupidity everywhere survive. There is no way of determining fitness except in that a thing does survive. 'Fitness,' then, is only another name for 'survival.' Darwinism: That survivors survive.

  Charles Fort

  Names, Stupidity, Survival

  Charles Fort (2016). “The Book of the Damned: The Original Classic of Paranormal Exploration”, p.23, Penguin

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• I conceive of nothing, in religion, science or philosophy, that is more than the proper thing to wear, for a while.

  Charles Fort

  Philosophy, Science, Science Religion

  Charles Fort (1941). “The Complete Books of Charles Fort”, p.993, Courier Corporation

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• All would be well. All would be heavenly--If the damned would only stay damned.

  Charles Fort

  Would Be, Wells, Heavenly

  Charles Fort (2008). “The Book of the Damned: The Collected Works of Charles Fort”, p.15, Penguin

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• Every science is a mutilated octopus. If its tentacles were not clipped to stumps, it would feel its way into disturbing contacts.

  Charles Fort

  Octopus, Way, Stumps

  Charles Fort (2006). “Wild Talents”, p.279, Cosimo, Inc.

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• There is not a physicist in the world who can perceive when a parlor magician palms off playing-cards.

  Charles Fort

  World, Cards, Parlor Games

  Charles Fort (2014). “New Lands”, p.60, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• I believe nothing of my own that I have ever written.

  Charles Fort

  Believe, I Believe, My Own

  Charles Fort (2014). “LO!”, p.15, Lulu.com

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• Science of to-day-the superstition of to-morrow. Science of to-morrow-the superstition of to-day.

  Charles Fort

  Science, Superstitions, Tomorrow

  Charles Fort (2016). “The Book of the Damned: The Original Classic of Paranormal Exploration”, p.122, Penguin

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• One can't be of an enquiring and experimental nature, and still be very sensible.

  Charles Fort

  Science, Mind, Enquiry

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• The fate of all explanation is to close one door only to have another fly wide open.

  Charles Fort

  Fate, Science, Doors

  Charles Fort (2016). “The Book of the Damned: The Original Classic of Paranormal Exploration”, p.27, Penguin

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• Peasants have believed in dowsing, and scientists used to believe that dowsing was only a belief of peasants. Now there are so many scientists who believe in dowsing that the suspicion comes to me that it may only be a myth after all.

  Charles Fort

  Believe, May, Belief

  Charles Fort (1941). “The Complete Books of Charles Fort”, p.1048, Courier Corporation

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