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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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Famous Charles Fort Quotes

“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

“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

“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

“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!

“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!

“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

“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

“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

“[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!

“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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