Charles Hartshorne Quotes:

[W]e live in a century in which everything has been said. The challenge today is to learn which statements to deny.

Topics: Challenges, Today, Deny

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

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

Topics: Doctrine, Arbitrary, Deism

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.

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

Topics: Philosophy, Character, Mean

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

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

Topics: Song, Book, Thinking, Bird Song

Do you remember which way I was heading?

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

Topics: Way, Remember, Headings

The secret of my success is longevity.

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

Topics: Secret, Longevity, Secret Of My Success

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.

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

Topics: Community, Soul, Kind

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.

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

Topics: Mean, Independent, Ordinary, Pantheism

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

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

Topics: Challenges, Today, Said