Charles Fort Quotes

Only conscious man can mirror the universal: he can consciously become one with the universal and so can consciously transcend the individual.

The man who never dreams, goes slowly mad.

I have toyed with the idea of playing it straight. But, like I say, I really believe we are all out of our minds at some level.

As is the microcosm, so is the macrocosm, As is the atom, so is the universe, As is the human mind, so is the cosmic mind.

Insanity is just a state of mind.

The infinite library of the Universe is in your mind.

One's life is an act with no actor, and thus it has always been recognized that the insane man that has lost his mind is a parody of the sage who has transcended his ego. If one is paranoid, the other is metanoid.

Losing my mind sounds so pessimistic. I prefer the term winning my insanity.

A man kept his character even when he was insane.

A sane man often reasons from sound premises; an insane man commonly reasons as well, but the premises are unsound.

Where to look if you've lost your mind?

I'd rather stay here with all the madmen than perish with the sadmen roaming free.

What does it mean, to lose one's mind? Where does it go? If a man is out of his mind, where is he? What is insane when the world is mad by contrast?

There exists just the One mind.

People talk about universal intelligence ... I'm reticent to believe almost anything, just because my parents weren't religious at all, but that's when I feel it. People talk about being in the "flow."

To stay close and intimate with experience is to stay close to the mind; the nitty gritty mind of the way things really are.

Faith is a permanent and vital endowment of the human mind-a part of reason itself. The insane alone are without it.

...we were back at home, and I had returned to that reassuring but profoundly unsatisfactory state known as 'being in one's right mind.

Of course, no man is entirely in his right mind at any time.

If being sane is thinking there's something wrong with being different, I'd rather be completely #$%^&^& mental.

I'm insane, not forgetful.

I thought you were sane," I said, "but you're just as crazy as the rest of them.

A lot of the time I'm semi-insane, but there is a slight bit of intelligence there.

Did I do anything last night that suggested I was sane?

The universe is alive and conscious, and it responds to our intent when we have our intimate relationship with the universe and see it not as separate but as our extended body.