Charles Fort Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

In measuring a circle, one begins anywhere.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

The outrageous is the reasonable, if introduced politely.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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