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Charles Fort

Charles Fort Books

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Charles Fort, born on August 6, 1874, was an American writer known for his exploration of science, mysterious phenomena, and the supernatural. His works have had a profound influence on science fiction literature and mysticism.

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“I conceive of the magic of prayers. I conceive of the magic of blasphemies. There is witchcraft in religion: there may be witchcraft in atheism.”

Religion Prayer Magic Atheism Witchcraft Anthropology Blasphemy Fortean

Book:Wild Talents

Source: Wild Talents

“Science of to-day-the superstition of to-morrow. Science of to-morrow-the superstition of to-day.”

Science Tomorrow Accounts Superstitions Morrow

Book:The Book of the Damned: The Original Classic of Paranormal Exploration

Source: The Book of the Damned: The Original Classic of Paranormal Exploration

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

Mind Stills Science Experiments Sensible Enquiry

Author:Charles Fort

“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.”

Mind Sometimes Science Notes Stores Experiments Data Gross Collectors Forts Enquiry Unexplained Macabre

Book:Wild Talents

Source: Wild Talents

“But Truth is that besides which there is nothing: nothing to modify it, nothing to question it, nothing to form an exception: the all-inclusive, the complete - By Truth, I mean the Universal.”

Mean Truth Form Truth Is Universal Exception Universal Truth

Book:The Book of the Damned: The Original Classic of Paranormal Exploration

Source: The Book of the Damned: The Original Classic of Paranormal Exploration

“In measuring a circle, one begins anywhere.”

Circles Measuring

Author:Charles Fort

“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.”

Way Doe Names Survival Weakness Stupidity Strongest Survivor Darwinism Forts

Book:The Book of the Damned: The Original Classic of Paranormal Exploration

Source: The Book of the Damned: The Original Classic of Paranormal Exploration

“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.”

Believe May Used Belief Scientist Myth Suspicion Peasants

Book:The Complete Books of Charles Fort

Source: The Complete Books of Charles Fort

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

Earth Property Farms

Author:Charles Fort

“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.”

People Needs Believe Psychological Gullible Psychological Needs

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“I believe nothing of my own that I have ever written.”

Believe I Believe My Own Written

Book:Lo!

Source: Lo!

“The ideal state is meekness, or humility, or the semi-invalid state of the old. Year after year I am becoming nobler and nobler. If I can live to be decrepit enough, I shall be a saint.”

Ifs Years I Can States Enough Humility Becoming Ideals Saint Meekness Old Year Decrepit

Book:Wild Talents

Source: Wild Talents

“All biologic phenomena act to adjust: there are no biologic actions other than adjustments. Adjustment is another name for Equilibrium. Equilibrium is the Universal, or that which has nothing external to derange it.”

Action Names Universal Adjustment Equilibrium

Book:The Book of the Damned: The Original Classic of Paranormal Exploration

Source: The Book of the Damned: The Original Classic of Paranormal Exploration

“The theologians have recognized that the ideal is the imitation of God. If we be a part of such an organic thing, this thing is God to us, as I am God to the cells that compose me.”

Ifs Ideals Cells Imitation Theologian

Book:Wild Talents

Source: Wild Talents

“Venus de Milo. To a child she is ugly. When a mind adjusts to thinking of her as a completeness, even though, by physiologic standards, incomplete, she is beautiful.”

Thinking Mind Children Beautiful Standards Ugly Incomplete Venus Completeness She Is Beautiful Venus De Milo Thinking Of Her

Book:The Book of the Damned: The Original Classic of Paranormal Exploration

Source: The Book of the Damned: The Original Classic of Paranormal Exploration

“The outrageous is the reasonable, if introduced politely.”

Ifs Reasonable Outrageous

Book:The Book of the Damned: The Original Classic of Paranormal Exploration

Source: The Book of the Damned: The Original Classic of Paranormal Exploration

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

Science Fate Doors Evidence Wide Explanation

Book:The Book of the Damned: The Original Classic of Paranormal Exploration

Source: The Book of the Damned: The Original Classic of Paranormal Exploration

“Existence is Appetite: the gnaw of being; the one attempt of all things to assimilate to some higher attempt.”

Existence Higher All Things Appetite

Book:The Book of the Damned: The Original Classic of Paranormal Exploration

Source: The Book of the Damned: The Original Classic of Paranormal Exploration

“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.”

Mind Believe Littles Matter Hands Belief I Believe Christ My Own Accepting Written Doors Subjects Fronts Products Welcome Frogs Subject Matter Front Doors Back Doors Periwinkle

Book:Lo!

Source: Lo!

“If any spiritualistic medium can do stunts, there is no more need for special conditions than there is for a chemist to turn down lights, start operations with a hymn, and ask whether there's any chemical present that has affinity with something named Hydrogen.”

Ifs Needs Light Turns Asks Can Do Special Conditions Mediums Operations Chemicals Hymns Affinity Chemist Hydrogen

Book:Lo!

Source: Lo!

“Do you want power over something? Be more nearly real than it.”

Book:The Book of the Damned: The Original Classic of Paranormal Exploration

Source: The Book of the Damned: The Original Classic of Paranormal Exploration

“I think, therefore I'm going to have breakfast.”

Thinking Breakfast

Author:Charles Fort

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

Has Beens Mystery Goes On Assurance Investigating

Book:Lo!

Source: Lo!

“If human thought is a growth, like all other growths, its logic is without foundation of its own, and is only the adjusting constructiveness of all other growing things. A tree cannot find out, as it were, how to blossom, until comes blossom-time. A social growth cannot find out the use of steam engines, until comes steam-engine-time.”

Ifs Humans Use Science Social Growth Growing Progress Tree Logic Foundation Invention Engines Steam Adjusting Human Thought Steam Engines Growing Things

Book:Lo!

Source: Lo!

“The history of science is a record of the transformations of contempts amd amusements.”

Science Records Transformation Contempt Amusement History Of Science

Book:Wild Talents

Source: Wild Talents

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

Mean Data Excluded Forts Procession

Book:The Complete Books of Charles Fort

Source: The Complete Books of Charles Fort

“I have taken the stand that nobody can be always wrong, but it does seem to me that I have approximated so highly that I am nothing short of a negative genius.”

Doe Seems Science Taken Genius Negative Errors Always Wrong

Book:Wild Talents

Source: Wild Talents

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

World Cards Perceive Palms Magician Physicist Parlor Playing Cards Parlor Games

Book:New Lands

Source: New Lands

“It is our expression that the flux between that which isn't and that which won't be, or the state that is commonly and absurdly called "existence," is a rhythm of heavens and hells: that the damned won't stay damed; that salvation only precedes perdition.”

States Heaven Existence Hell Expression Salvation Rhythm Heaven And Hell Flux Perdition

Author:Charles Fort

“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?”

Ifs Thinking Should Interest Relation What If Coincidence Pseudo

Book:The Book of the Damned: The Collected Works of Charles Fort

Source: The Book of the Damned: The Collected Works of Charles Fort

“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.”

Source: Wild Talents

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

Ifs Way Feels Contact Disturbing Stumps Octopus Tentacles

Book:Wild Talents

Source: Wild Talents

“Against all the opposition in the world, I make this statement - that once I knew a magician. I was a witness of a performance that may some day be considered understandable, but that, in these primitive times, so transcends what is said to be the known that it is what I mean by magic.”

World May Mean Said Known Magic Performances Statements Witness Opposition Primitive Magician

Book:Wild Talents

Source: Wild Talents

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

Ifs Wells Would Be Heavenly

Book:The Book of the Damned: The Collected Works of Charles Fort

Source: The Book of the Damned: The Collected Works of Charles Fort

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

Book:The Book of the Damned: The Original Classic of Paranormal Exploration

Source: The Book of the Damned: The Original Classic of Paranormal Exploration

“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you, and you will make of their circumstances the litter you have made of your own.”

Made Circumstances Do Unto Others

Author:Charles Fort

“[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.”

Ifs Men Doe Art Matter States Law Stars Wise Demand Economics All Things Circles Oneness Frogs Grasping Supply And Demand Bonaparte

Book:Lo!

Source: Lo!

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

Book:Wild Talents

Source: Wild Talents

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

People Should Belief Saws Authority Deceit Hypnosis Hypnotic

Author:Charles Fort

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

Philosophy Science Accounts Science Religion

Book:The Complete Books of Charles Fort

Source: The Complete Books of Charles Fort

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

Ifs Mind Universal Sane

Author:Charles Fort

About the Author

Born: August 6, 1874
Died: May 3, 1932
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 41

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