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
circles measuring
In measuring a circle, one begins anywhere.
goes-on mystery assurance
When we come upon assurances that a mystery has been solved, we go on investigating.
mind sane ifs
If there is a true universal mind, must it be sane?
wise art stars
[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.
comfortable
One can't learn much and also be comfortable One can't learn much and let anybody else be comfortable
real want
Do you want power over something? Be more nearly real than it.
earth property farms
The Earth is a farm. We are someone else's property.
hypnosis people saws
Almost all people are hypnotics. The proper authority saw to it that the proper belief should be induced, and the people believed properly.
expression heaven hell
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.
lying data mad
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.
believe psychological-needs people
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.
thinking what-if pseudo
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?
almost applies apply definitely though
If "mass psychology" applies definitely to one occurrence, it must, even though almost imperceptibly, apply to all occurrences.
accept biologists conceive revolting trying
In 1859, the thing to do was to accept Darwinism; now many biologists are revolting and trying to conceive of something else.