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Charles Fort


Born
in Albany, New York, The United States
August 06, 1874

Died
May 03, 1932

Genre
Nonfiction, Science


Charles Hoy Fort was a Dutch-American writer and researcher into anomalous phenomena.

Jerome Clark writes that Fort was "essentially a satirist hugely skeptical of human beings' – especially scientists' – claims to ultimate knowledge". Clark describes Fort's writing style as a "distinctive blend of mocking humor, penetrating insight, and calculated outrageousness".

Writer Colin Wilson describes Fort as "a patron of cranks" and also argues that running through Fort's work is "the feeling that no matter how honest scientists think they are, they are still influenced by various unconscious assumptions that prevent them from attaining true objectivity. Expressed in a sentence, Fort's principle goes something like this: People with a psychological ...more

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Average rating: 3.72 · 1,771 ratings · 195 reviews · 52 distinct works • Similar authors
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Lo!
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Wild Talents
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New Lands
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The Outcast Manufacturers
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Charles Fort: Collected Works
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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.”
― Charles Fort
tags: conspiracy, deception, fortean, hypnosis, manipulation, mind-control, people, secrecy
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“If there is a true universal mind, must it be sane?”
― Charles Fort
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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 stars, or laws of supply and demand, or frogs, or Napoleon Bonaparte. One measures a circle, beginning anywhere.”
― Charles Fort, Lo!
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