Top 8 Quotes by Charles Hartshorne

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

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

Challenges, Today, Said

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

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.

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.

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.