Venus de Milo. To a child she is ugly. When a mind adjusts to thinking of her as a completeness, even though, by physiologic standards, incomplete, she is beautiful. — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
[Wise men] have tried to understand our state of being, by grasping at its stars, or its arts, or its economics. But, if there… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
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… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
Against all the opposition in the world, I make this statement - that once I knew a magician. I was a witness of a… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
“There is a continuity of all things that make classifications fictions. But all human knowledge depends upon arrangements. Then all books--scientific, theological, philosophical--are only… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
“Is life worth living? Like everybody else, I have many times asked that question, usually deciding negatively, because I am most likely to ask… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
All would be well. All would be heavenly--If the damned would only stay damned. — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
I have taken the stand that nobody can be always wrong, but it does seem to me that I have approximated so highly that… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
“I sent letters of enquiry to all persons whose names were given, and received not one reply. There are several ways of explaining. One… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
“We cannot define. Nothing has ever been finally figured out, because there is nothing final to figure out” — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
The fate of all explanation is to close one door only to have another fly wide open. — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
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