Charles Hartshorne famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

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

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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

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

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

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The secret of my success is longevity.
-- Charles Hartshorne

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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

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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

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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

#Challenges #Today #Said

Young people often serve as scapegoats for the challenges communities face. At the same time, they are routinely pushed away from connecting to their communities as serious problem-solvers capable of changing the world.
The challenge, really, on any new film is to try to avoid that and achieve a few moments that aren't cliche.
I always want to set myself a challenge by doing something no-one would expect me to do! But, having said that, I don't feel as a musician you can steer too far away from what you normally do.
Changing technologies, changing marketplaces, and even changing trends in anti-competitive practices have all presented challenges to antitrust enforcement.
How do you gag the voice in your head that says, 'You don't have to [do it] today. There's always tomorrow.'?
The leading rule for a man of every calling is diligence; never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.
Today, ... anything you can come up with that works is worth trying.
We sit here stranded, though we're all doin' our best to deny it
When we deny our stories, They define us. When we own our stories, we get to write the ending.

Charles Hartshorne famous quotes

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