Charles Hartshorne Quotes & Sayings

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

Do you remember which way I was heading? — Charles Hartshorne

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

The secret of my success is longevity. — Charles Hartshorne

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

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

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