A good many brats are brought up, in the straight and narrow, somewhat deviously.
– Charles Fort
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.
– Charles Fort
If mass psychology applies definitely to one occurrence, it must, even though almost imperceptibly, apply to all occurrences.
– Charles Fort
In 1859, the thing to do was to accept Darwinism; now many biologists are revolting and trying to conceive of something else.
– Charles Fort
It is not possible to define. Nothing has ever been finally found out. Because there is nothing final to find out.
– Charles Fort
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.
– 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 I can live to be decrepit e nough, I shall be a saint.
– Charles Fort
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.
– Charles Fort
There is not a physicist in the world who can perceive when a parlor magician palms off playing-cards.
– Charles Fort
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.