Charles Fort Quotes

If mass psychology applies definitely to one occurrence, it must, even though almost imperceptibly, apply to all occurrences.

psychology

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.

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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.

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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.

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Almost all people are hypnotics. The proper authority saw to it that the proper belief should be induced, and the people believed properly.

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My liveliest interest is not so much in things, as in relations of things. I have spent much time thinking about the alleged pseudo-relations that are called coincidences. What if some of them should not be coincidences?

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Everywhere is the tabooed, or the disregarded. The monks of science dwell in smuggeries that are walled away from event-jungles. Or some of them do. Nowadays a good many of them are going native.

science

If any spiritualistic medium can do stunts, there is no more need for special conditions than there is for a chemist to turn down lights, start operations with a hymn, and ask whether there's any chemical present that has affinity with something named Hydrogen.

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