Charles Hartshorne

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We live in a century in which everything has been said. The challenge today is to learn which statements to deny.
- Charles Hartshorne
Collection: Challenges
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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
Collection: Mean
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The secret of my success is longevity.
- Charles Hartshorne
Collection: Secret
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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
Collection: Community
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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
Collection: Philosophy
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Do you remember which way I was heading?
- Charles Hartshorne
Collection: Way
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Panentheistic doctrine contains all of deism and pandeism except their arbitrary negations.
- Charles Hartshorne
Collection: Doctrine
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I think my great book is Born to Sing: An Interpretation and World Survey of Bird Song.
- Charles Hartshorne
Collection: Song