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
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.
mean magic world
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
names stupidity survival
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.
believe may belief
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.
cards world parlor-games
There is not a physicist in the world who can perceive when a parlor magician palms off playing-cards.
fate doors explanation
The fate of all explanation is to close one door only to have another fly wide open.
taken science errors
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.
circles measuring
In measuring a circle, one begins anywhere.