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

    Charles Fort (2016). “The Book of the Damned: The Original Classic of Paranormal Exploration”, p.23, Penguin
  • The history of science is a record of the transformations of contempts amd amusements.

    Charles Fort (2014). “Wild Talents”, p.67, Baen Publishing Enterprises
  • 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.

    Charles Fort (2014). “Wild Talents”, p.180, Baen Publishing Enterprises
  • I believe nothing of my own that I have ever written.

    Believe  
    Charles Fort (2014). “LO!”, p.15, Lulu.com
  • Science of to-day-the superstition of to-morrow. Science of to-morrow-the superstition of to-day.

    Charles Fort (2016). “The Book of the Damned: The Original Classic of Paranormal Exploration”, p.122, Penguin
  • I think, therefore I'm going to have breakfast.

  • 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.

    Believe   People  
  • [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 (2014). “LO!”, p.5, Lulu.com
  • 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.

    Charles Fort (2014). “LO!”, p.16, Lulu.com
  • When we come upon assurances that a mystery has been solved, we go on investigating.

    Charles Fort (2014). “Lo!”, p.85, Baen Publishing Enterprises
  • 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 (2013). “The Complete Books of Charles Fort”, p.3, Courier Corporation
  • 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.

    Charles Fort (2016). “The Book of the Damned: The Original Classic of Paranormal Exploration”, p.10, Penguin
  • It is not possible to define. Nothing has ever been finally found out. Because there is nothing final to find out.

    Charles Fort (2016). “The Book of the Damned: The Original Classic of Paranormal Exploration”, p.15, Penguin
  • All would be well. All would be heavenly--If the damned would only stay damned.

    Charles Fort (2008). “The Book of the Damned: The Collected Works of Charles Fort”, p.15, Penguin
  • The fate of all explanation is to close one door only to have another fly wide open.

    Doors  
    Charles Fort (2016). “The Book of the Damned: The Original Classic of Paranormal Exploration”, p.27, Penguin
  • Every science is a mutilated octopus. If its tentacles were not clipped to stumps, it would feel its way into disturbing contacts.

    Charles Fort (2006). “Wild Talents”, p.279, Cosimo, Inc.
  • 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 (2008). “The Book of the Damned: The Collected Works of Charles Fort”, p.846, Penguin
  • 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.

    Charles Fort (2014). “Wild Talents”, p.185, Baen Publishing Enterprises
  • 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 (2014). “Wild Talents”, p.35, Baen Publishing Enterprises
  • 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.

    Charles Fort (2014). “Wild Talents”, p.49, Baen Publishing Enterprises
  • 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.

    Charles Fort (2016). “The Book of the Damned: The Original Classic of Paranormal Exploration”, p.12, Penguin
  • Almost all people are hypnotics. The proper authority saw to it that the proper belief should be induced, and the people believed properly.

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

    Charles Fort (2014). “New Lands”, p.60, Baen Publishing Enterprises
  • One can't be of an enquiring and experimental nature, and still be very sensible.

  • 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.

    Charles Fort (2014). “Wild Talents”, p.35, Baen Publishing Enterprises
  • I conceive of nothing, in religion, science or philosophy, that is more than the proper thing to wear, for a while.

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

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

    "The Book of The Damned". Book by Charles Fort, 1919.
  • 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.

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