Charles Hartshorne Quotes

• We live in a century in which everything has been said. The challenge today is to learn which statements to deny.

  Charles Hartshorne

  Challenges, Today, Said

  "A hundred years of thinking about God: A philosopher soon to be rediscovered". U.S. News & World Report, February 23, 1998.

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• God thus excludes the world; he is only its cause; in no sense is he effect, of himself or anything else. Pantheism (better, "pandeism," for again it is not really the theos that is described) means that God is the integral totality of ordinary cause-effects, and that there, is no super-cause independent of ordinary causes and effects.

  Charles Hartshorne

  Mean, Independent, World

  "Man's Vision of God and the Logic of Theism" by Charles Hartshorne, (p. 347), 1941.

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• The secret of my success is longevity.

  Charles Hartshorne

  Secret, Longevity, Secret Of My Success

  Charles Hartshorne (2007). “Hartshorne: A New World View”, p.2, Lulu.com

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• All things, in all their aspects, consist exclusively of 'souls', that is, of various kinds of subjects, or units of experiencing, with their qualifications, relations, and groupings, or communities.

  Charles Hartshorne

  Community, Soul, Kind

  "Man's Vision of God and the Logic of Theism" by Charles Hartshorne, (p. 183), 1941.

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• Speculative Philosophy is the endeavour to frame a coherent, logical, necessary system of general ideas in terms of which every element of our experience can be interpreted. By this notion of 'interpretation' I mean that everything of which we are conscious, as enjoyed, perceived, willed, or thought, shall have the character of a particular instance of the general scheme.

  Charles Hartshorne

  Philosophy, Character, Mean

  "The Logic of Perfection and Other Essays in Neoclassical Metaphysics" by Charles Hartshorne, (p. viii), 1962.

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• Do you remember which way I was heading?

  Charles Hartshorne

  Way, Remember, Headings

  Charles Hartshorne (2007). “Hartshorne: A New World View”, p.1, Lulu.com

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• Panentheistic doctrine contains all of deism and pandeism except their arbitrary negations.

  Charles Hartshorne

  Doctrine, Arbitrary, Deism

  "Man's Vision of God and the Logic of Theism" by Charles Hartshorne, (p. 348), 1941.

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• I think my great book is Born to Sing: An Interpretation and World Survey of Bird Song.

  Charles Hartshorne

  Song, Book, Thinking

  "Not The Average Philosopher". Harvard Magazine, Volume 99, Number 5, May/June 1997.

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