If human thought is a growth, like all other growths, its...

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. A tree cannot find out, as it were, how to blossom, until comes blossom-time. A social growth cannot find out the use of steam engines, until comes steam-engine-time.

The Book of the Damned: The Collected Works of Charles Fort (ed. Penguin, 2008) - ISBN: 9781440635946

Charles Fort Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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...