Charles Fort Quotes

No single person who has ever lived will be able to tell you what happens. Period. Nobody's right and nobody's wrong.

Ambiguity is something that I really respond to. I like the complexity of it.

The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.

Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.

Something unknown is doing we don't know what.

There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.

One mysterious person looking at another mysterious person equals what? Another mystery.

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

No one will ever know the complete truth.

The world is not always ours to understand.

Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know.

Everything is true and not true about everything. That’s one thing I’ve learned.

Moral: It all depends.

To smell, though well, is to stink.

How can the unknown merit reverence? In other words how can you revere that of which you are ignorant? At the same time, it would be ridiculous to propose that what we know merits reverence. What we know merits any one of a number of things, but it stands to reason reverence isn't one of them. In other words, apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?

Some things were beyond understanding.

You won’t arrive. It is an endless search.

Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.

Even the people who have it do not definitely know what genius is.

Either is both, and Both is neither.

The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits.

Nothing is always absolutely so

As soon as you think you know Clint Eastwood, you don't know Clint Eastwood.

Nothing in its essence is one way or the other.

For me, truth cracks open in the places where things do not cohere. That's how life is.