Charles Fort
Charles Fort
Charles Hoy Fortwas an American writer and researcher into anomalous phenomena. Today, the terms Fortean and Forteana are used to characterize various such phenomena. Fort's books sold well and are still in print today. His work continues to inspire people, who call themselves Forteans, and has influenced some aspects of science fiction...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth6 August 1874
CountryUnited States of America
beautiful children thinking
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.
tree growth use
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.
finals found
It is not possible to define. Nothing has ever been finally found out. Because there is nothing final to find out.
would-be wells heavenly
All would be well. All would be heavenly--If the damned would only stay damned.
philosophy science science-religion
I conceive of nothing, in religion, science or philosophy, that is more than the proper thing to wear, for a while.
light hymns special
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.
appetite existence higher
Existence is Appetite: the gnaw of being; the one attempt of all things to assimilate to some higher attempt.
ifs reasonable outrageous
The outrageous is the reasonable, if introduced politely.
cells imitation theologian
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.
truth mean form
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.
made circumstances do-unto-others
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.
science superstitions morrow
Science of to-day-the superstition of to-morrow. Science of to-morrow-the superstition of to-day.
mind sensible stills
One can't be of an enquiring and experimental nature, and still be very sensible.
humility years old-year
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.