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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)

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The fate of all explanation is to close one door only to have another fly wide open.

The Book of The Damned (1919)

I conceive of nothing, in religion, science, or philosophy, that is more than the proper thing to wear, for a while.

Wild Talents (1932)

Existence is Appetite: the gnaw of being; the one attempt of all things to assimilate to some higher attempt.

The Book of The Damned (1919)

The outrageous is the reasonable, if introduced politely.

The Book of The Damned (1919)

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.

Lo! (1931)

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Reason is Life's sole arbiter, the magic Laby'rinth's single clue:
Worlds lie above, beyond its ken; what crosses it can ne'er be true.

Richard Francis Burton The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)

In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of an archaic society detaches himself from profane time and magically re-enters the Great Time, the sacred time.

Mircea Eliade Myths, Dreams and Mysteries (1967)

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Thomas Jefferson

The superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property.

Confucius

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