Top Ten Best Charles Fort Quotes & Written Works
Charles Hoy Fort was a writer & researcher of anomalous phenomena.The Top Ten
1 The fate of all explanation is to close one door only to have another fly wide open.
2 The outrageous is the reasonable, if introduced politely.
3 I have taken the stand that nobody can be always wrong, but it does seem to me that I have approximated so highly that I am nothing short of a negative genius.
4 One can't learn much and also be comfortable. One can't learn much and let anybody else be comfortable.
5 The fittest survive.What is meant by the fittest?Not the strongest;not the cleverest-Weakness & stupidity everywhere survive.There is no way of determining fitness except in that a thing does survive."Fitness,"then,is only another name for"survival"
6 Existence is Appetite: the gnaw of being; the one attempt of all things to assimilate to some higher attempt.
7 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.
8 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 can not find out, as it were, how to blossom, until comes blossom-time.
9 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?
10 I conceive of nothing, in religion, science, or philosophy, that is more than the proper thing to wear, for a while.
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