Charles Fort Video

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.

Religion is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstance.

I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.

The social kiss is an exchange of insincerity between two combatants on the field of social advancement. It places hygiene before affection and condescension before all else.

The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education

I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. There are times when this distinction may be given to the writer or director. Most often it belongs to the producer.

You hear it said that fathers want their sons to be what they feel they cannot themselves be, but I tell you it also works the other way.

The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.

So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.

I abandoned the extraterrestrial hypothesis in 1967 when my own field investigations disclosed an astonishing overlap between psychic phenomena and UFOs ... The objects and apparitions do not necessarily originate on another planet and may not even exist as permanent constructions of matter. It is more likely that we see what we want to see and interpret such visions according to our contemporary beliefs. [1]

If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.

Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.