The Complete Books of Charles Fort Quotes

“I fear me, I fear me: this is one of the profoundly damned. I blurt out something that should, perhaps, be withheld for several hundred pages—but that damned thing was the size of an elephant.”
― Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned

“So, then, in general metaphysical terms, our expression is that, like a purgatory, all that is commonly called "existence," which we call Intermediateness, is quasi-existence, neither real nor unreal, but expression of attempt to become real, or to generate for or recruit a real existence.”
― Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned

“That social organism is embryonic. That firmly to believe is to impede development. That only temporarily to accept is to facilitate.”
― Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned

“undistorted interpretation of external sounds in the mind of a dreamer could not continue to exist in a dreaming mind, because that touch of relative realness would be of awakening and not of dreaming.”
― Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned

“That this is the quest; but that it has never been attained; but that Science has acted, ruled, pronounced, and condemned as if it had been attained.”
― Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned