The fittest survive. What is meant by the fittest? Not the strongest; not the cleverest - weakness and stupidity everywhere survive. There is no way of determining fitness except in that a thing does survive. 'Fitness,' then, is only another… — 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 merely numerically adding to my stores. Other times I have joys, when unexpectedly coming upon an outrageous story that may not be altogether a lie, or upon a macabre little thing that may make some reviewer… — Charles Fort Copy Share
[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 myself whether life is worth living, at times when I am convinced it isn't. One day, in one of my frequent, and probably incurable, scientific moments, it occurred to me to find out. For a month,… — Charles Fort Copy Share
All would be well. All would be heavenly--If the damned would only stay damned. — Charles Fort Copy Share
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 is that it is probable that persons who have experiences such as those told of in this book, receive so many "crank letters" that they answer none. Dear me — once upon a time, I enjoyed… — Charles Fort Copy Share
“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
![“[Wise men] have tried to understand our state of being, by grasping at its stars, or its arts, or its economics. But, 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…” quote by Charles Fort](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1e7/charles-fort-11887_art_wise-men-have-tried-to-understand-our-st_19788.jpg)
