Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Charles Hartshorne

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Charles Hartshorne was an American philosopher who concentrated primarily on the philosophy of religion and metaphysics, but also contributed to ornithology. He developed the neoclassical idea of God and produced a modal proof of the existence of God that was a development of Anselm of Canterbury's ontological argument. Hartshorne is also noted for developing Alfred North Whitehead's process philosophy into process theology.

American - Philosopher | June 5, 1897 - October 9, 2000

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Do you remember which way I was heading?

Charles Hartshorne

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

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

Charles Hartshorne

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

Charles Hartshorne

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

Charles Hartshorne

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

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

The secret of my success is longevity.

Charles Hartshorne

Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Charles Hartshorne

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