Home The Mine of Useless Information - everything you never needed to know!

Charles Fort Quotes

"A good many brats are brought up, in the straight and narrow, somewhat deviously."

"All biologic phenomena act to adjust: there are no biologic actions other than adjustments. Adjustment is another name for Equilibrium. Equilibrium is the Universal, or that which has nothing external to derange it."

"If "mass psychology" applies definitely to one occurrence, it must, even though almost imperceptibly, apply to all occurrences."

"In 1859, the thing to do was to accept Darwinism; now many biologists are revolting and trying to conceive of something else."

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

"Phenomena of a man alone on a desert island can be explained in terms of "mass psychology" - inasmuch as the mind of no man is a unit, but is a community of mental states that influence one another."

"The ideal state is meekness, or humility, or the semi-invalid state of the old. Year after year I am becoming nobler and nobler. If I can live to be decrepit e nough, I shall be a saint."

"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."

"There is not a physicist in the world who can perceive when a parlor magician palms off playing-cards."

"When I see myself, and c ats, and dogs losing irregularities of conduct and approaching the irreproachable, with advancing age, I see that what is ennobling us is senility."

© 2006 The Mine of Useless Information