70 Quotes by Charles Fort

Call it swoon, or call it hypnosis – but that it is never absolute, and that all of us sometimes have awareness of our condition, and moments of wondering what it’s all about and why we do and think the things that sometimes we wake up and find ourselves doing and thinking. Upon.

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.

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.

I think, therefore I’m going to have breakfast.

One can’t be of an enquiring and experimental nature, and still be very sensible.

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.

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 damned; that salvation only precedes perdition. The inference is that some day our accursed tatterdemalions will be sleek angels. Then the sub-inference is that some later day, back they’ll go whence they came.

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.

But some of us have been educated by surprises out of much that we were ‘absolutely sure’ of...