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> [ \[Wise men\] 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… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-fort/wise-men-have-tried-to-understand-our-state-of-being-by-grasping-at/)

[Charles Fort](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-fort/)

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> [“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.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-fort/if-there-is-an-underlying-oneness-of-all-things-it-does-not-matter/)

[Charles Fort](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-fort/)

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## More by Charles Fort

> [Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-fort/sometimes-i-am-a-collector-of-data-and-only-a-collector-and-am-likely/)

[Charles Fort](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-fort/)

> [ \[Wise men\] have tried to understand our state of being, by grasping at its stars, or its arts, or its economics. But, if there… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-fort/wise-men-have-tried-to-understand-our-state-of-being-by-grasping-at/)

[Charles Fort](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-fort/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-fort/the-ideal-state-is-meekness-or-humility-or-the-semi-invalid-state-of/)

[Charles Fort](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-fort/)

> [Against all the opposition in the world, I make this statement - that once I knew a magician. I was a witness of a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-fort/against-all-the-opposition-in-the-world-i-make-this-statement-that/)

[Charles Fort](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-fort/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-fort/there-is-a-continuity-of-all-things-that-make-classifications/)

[Charles Fort](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-fort/)

> [The Earth is a farm. We are someone else's property.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-fort/the-earth-is-a-farm-we-are-someone-else-s-property/)

[Charles Fort](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-fort/)

> [“Is life worth living? Like everybody else, I have many times asked that question, usually deciding negatively, because I am most likely to ask…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-fort/is-life-worth-living-like-everybody-else-i-have-many-times-asked-that/)

[Charles Fort](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-fort/)

> [All would be well. All would be heavenly--If the damned would only stay damned.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-fort/all-would-be-well-all-would-be-heavenly-if-the-damned-would-only-stay/)

[Charles Fort](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-fort/)

> [I have taken the stand that nobody can be always wrong, but it does seem to me that I have approximated so highly that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-fort/i-have-taken-the-stand-that-nobody-can-be-always-wrong-but-it-does/)

[Charles Fort](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-fort/)

> [“I sent letters of enquiry to all persons whose names were given, and received not one reply. There are several ways of explaining. One…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-fort/i-sent-letters-of-enquiry-to-all-persons-whose-names-were-given-and/)

[Charles Fort](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-fort/)

> [“We cannot define. Nothing has ever been finally figured out, because there is nothing final to figure out”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-fort/we-cannot-define-nothing-has-ever-been-finally-figured-out-because/)

[Charles Fort](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-fort/)

> [The fate of all explanation is to close one door only to have another fly wide open.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-fort/the-fate-of-all-explanation-is-to-close-one-door-only-to-have-another/)

[Charles Fort](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-fort/)

> [The history of science is a record of the transformations of contempts amd amusements.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-fort/the-history-of-science-is-a-record-of-the-transformations-of/)

[Charles Fort](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-fort/)

> [“I am a collector of notes upon subjects that have diversity — such as deviations from concentricity in the lunar crater Copernicus, and a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-fort/i-am-a-collector-of-notes-upon-subjects-that-have-diversity-such-as/)

[Charles Fort](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-fort/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-fort/it-is-our-expression-that-the-flux-between-that-which-isn-t-and-that/)

[Charles Fort](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-fort/)

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