Frases de Charles Fort
Charles Fort
Fecha de nacimiento: 6. Agosto 1874
Fecha de muerte: 3. Mayo 1932
Otros nombres: Чарльз Форт
Charles Hoy Fort fue un investigador estadounidense, conocido por dedicarse al estudio de fenómenos anómalos no solventados por la ciencia de su época. Los términos Forteano y Forteana se usan a veces para caracterizar tales fenómenos. Su obra sigue inspirando a admiradores, que se refieren a sí mismos como "Forteanos", y ha influido en algunos aspectos de la ciencia ficción.
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„Everywhere is the tabooed, or the disregarded.“
— Charles Fort
Wild Talents (1932), Context: 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.
Ch. 13 http://www.resologist.net/talent13.htm
„One measures a circle, beginning anywhere.“
— Charles Fort, book Lo!
Lo! (1931), Context: 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.
Pt 1, Ch. 1 http://www.resologist.net/lo101.htm
„If human thought is a growth, like all other growths, its logic is without foundation of its own, and is only the adjusting constructiveness of all other growing things.“
— Charles Fort, book Lo!
Lo! (1931), Context: If human thought is a growth, like all other growths, its logic is without foundation of its own, and is only the adjusting constructiveness of all other growing things. A tree can not find out, as it were, how to blossom, until comes blossom-time. A social growth cannot find out the use of steam engines, until comes steam-engine-time. For whatever is supposed to be meant by progress, there is no need in human minds for standards of their own: this is in the sense that no part of a growing plant needs guidance of its own devising, nor special knowledge of its own as to how to become a leaf or a root. It needs no base of its own, because the relative wholeness of the plant is relative baseness to its parts. At the same time, in the midst of this theory of submergence, I do not accept that human minds are absolute nonentities, just as I do not accept that a leaf, or a root, of a plant, though so dependent upon a main body, and so clearly only a part, is absolutely without something of an individualizing touch of its own.
It is the problem of continuity-discontinuity, which perhaps I shall have to take up sometime.
Pt 1, Ch. 4 http://www.resologist.net/lo104.htm
„If there is an underlying oneness of all things, it does not matter where we begin“
— Charles Fort, book Lo!
Lo! (1931), Context: 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.
Pt 1, Ch. 1 http://www.resologist.net/lo101.htm
„My liveliest interest is not so much in things, as in relations of things.“
— Charles Fort
Wild Talents (1932), Context: 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?
Ch. 2 http://www.resologist.net/talent02.htm
„My general expression is that all human beings who can do anything; and dogs that track unseen quarry, and homing pigeons, and bird-charming snakes, and caterpillars who transform into butterflies, are magicians.“
— Charles Fort
Wild Talents (1932), Context: My general expression is that all human beings who can do anything; and dogs that track unseen quarry, and homing pigeons, and bird-charming snakes, and caterpillars who transform into butterflies, are magicians. … Considering modern data, it is likely that many of the fakirs of the past, who are now known as saints, did, or to some degree did, perform the miracles that have been attributed to them. Miracles, or stunts, that were in accord with the dominant power of the period were fostered, and miracles that conflicted with, or that did not contribute to, the glory of the Church, were discouraged, or were savagely suppressed. There could be no development of mechanical, chemical, or electric miracles —
And that, in the succeeding age of Materialism — or call it the Industrial Era — there is the same state of subservience to a dominant, so that young men are trained to the glory of the job, and dream and invent in fields that are likely to interest stockholders, and are schooled into thinking that all magics, except their own industrial magics, are fakes, superstitions, or newspaper yarns.
Ch. 27 http://www.resologist.net/talent27.htm
„There are cynics who deny the existence of human gratitude. But it seems that I am no cynic. So convinced am I of the existence of gratitude that I see in it one of our strongest oppositions. There are millions of persons who receive favors that they forget: but gratitude does exist, and they've got to express it somewhere. They take it out by being grateful to science for all that science has done for them, a gratitude, which, according to their dull perceptions won't cost them anything. So there is economic indignation against anybody who is disagreeable to science. He is trying to rob the people of a cheap gratitude.
I like a bargain as well as does anybody else, but I can't save expenses by being grateful to Science, if for every scientist who has perhaps been of benefit to me, there have been many other scientists who have tried to strangle that possible benefit.“
— Charles Fort, book Lo!
Lo! (1931), Pt 1, Ch. 4
„One can't learn much and also be comfortable. One can't learn much and let anybody else be comfortable.“
— Charles Fort
Wild Talents (1932), Ch. 6 http://www.resologist.net/talent06.htm
„Scientists who have thought that they were seeking Truth, but who were trying to find out astronomic, or chemic, or biologic truths. But Truth is that besides which there is nothing: nothing to modify it, nothing to question it, nothing to form an exception: the all-inclusive, the complete--By Truth I mean the Universal.“
— Charles Fort
The Book of The Damned (1919), Ch. 1, part 4 at resologist.net
„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 called "existence," is a rhythm of heavens and hells: that the damned won't stay damed; that salvation only precedes perdition.“
— Charles Fort
The Book of The Damned (1919), Ch. 1, part 2 at resologist.net
„My own notion is that it is very unsportsmanlike ever to mention fraud. Accept anything. Then explain it your way. Anything that assimilates with one explanation, must have assimilable relations, to some degree, with all other explanations, if all explanations are somewhere continuous.“
— Charles Fort
The Book of The Damned (1919), Ch. 11 at resologist.net Ch. 11 at sacred-texts.com http://www.sacred-texts.com/fort/damn/damn11.htm
„By Realness, I mean that which does not merge away into something else, and that which is not partly something else: that which is not a reaction to, or an imitation of, something else. By a real hero, we mean one who is not partly a coward, or whose actions and motives do not merge away into cowardice. But, if in Continuity, all things do merge, by Realness, I mean the Universal, besides which there is nothing with which to merge.“
— Charles Fort
The Book of The Damned (1919), Ch. 1, part 9 at resologist.net
