Charles Fort

"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 chem…"

"The outrageous is the reasonable, if introduced politely."

"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 wo…"

"One can't learn much and also be comfortable. One can't learn much and let anybody else be comfortable."

"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 …"

"Existence is Appetite: the gnaw of being; the one attempt of all things to assimilate to some higher attempt."

"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 une…"

"I conceive of nothing, in religion, science, or philosophy, that is more than the proper thing to wear, for a while."