70 Quotes by Charles Fort

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

One can't learn much andalso be comfortableOne can't learn much andlet anybody else be comfortable

Let a god change anything, and there will be reactions of evil as much as good. Only stupidity can be divine.

I think we're property.I should say we belong to something:That once upon a time, this earth was No-man's Land, that other worlds explored and colonized here, and fought among themselves for possession, but that now it's owned by something:That something owns this earth -- all others warned off.

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.

If good and evil are continuous, any crime can be linked with any virtue. Imposture merges away into self-deception so that only relatively has there ever been impostor.

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.

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

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