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

— 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)

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)

"Every science is a mutilated octopus. If its tentacles were not clipped to stumps, it would feel its way into disturbing contacts.”

Wild Talents (1932)

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John Adams A Defence of the Constitutions of Government (1787)

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Thomas Babington Macaulay History of England (1849)

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