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Charles Hartshorne
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“the search for necessary truths, truths that are not only true, but they couldn’t have been false.”
Charles Hartshorne (1897–2000) first seen 1996 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In the Veery journal interview in 1996, in reply to the question of "What is the most rewarding aspect of philosophy?" presented by Veery editor Steven Vita, later reprinted in 1997 in the Austin American-Statesman and …
“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 (1897–2000) first seen 1962 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Logic of Perfection and Other Essays in Neoclassical Metaphysics (1962) p. viii
“My ultimate intuitive clue in philosophy is that "God is love" and that the idea of God is definable as that of the being worthy to be loved with all one’s heart, mind, soul, and entire being.”
Charles Hartshorne (1897–2000) first seen 1991 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Philosophy of Charles Hartshorne (1991), edited by Lewis Edwin Hahn, p. 700
“I think my great book is Born to Sing: An Interpretation and World Survey of Bird Song.”
Charles Hartshorne (1897–2000) first seen 1997 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In Herbert F. Vetter, "Not The Average Philosopher", Harvard Magazine, May/June 1997, Volume 99, Number 5. Vetter was surprised by this, given Hartshorne's dozens of substantial books on theology.
“Do you remember which way I was heading?”
Charles Hartshorne (1897–2000) first seen 1997 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In Herbert F. Vetter, "Not The Average Philosopher", Harvard Magazine, May/June 1997, Volume 99, Number 5. Recounting Hartshorne's legendary absent-mindedness.
“The secret of my success is longevity.”
Charles Hartshorne (1897–2000) first seen 1997 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In Herbert F. Vetter, "Not The Average Philosopher", Harvard Magazine, May/June 1997, Volume 99, Number 5. On his selection to the Library of Living Philosophers
“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 (1897–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1897–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In Plato’s Republic one finds the proposition: God, being perfect, cannot change (not for the better, since "perfect" means that there can be no better; not for the worse, since ability to change for the worse, to decay, degenerate, or become corrupt, is a weakness, an imperfection). The argument may seem cogent, but it is so only if two assumptions are valid: that it is possible to conceive of a meaning for "perfect" that excludes change in any and every respect and that we must conceive God as perfect in just this sense.”
Charles Hartshorne (1897–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The idea of revelation is the idea of special knowledge of God, or of religious truth, possessed by some people and transmitted by them to others. In some form or other the idea is reasonable. In all other matters people differ in their degree of skill or insight. Why not in religion?”
Charles Hartshorne (1897–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[T]he traditional idea of divine perfection or infinity is hopelessly unclear or ambiguous and that persisting in that tradition is bound to cause increasing skepticism, confusion, and human suffering. It has long bred, and must evermore breed, atheism as a natural reaction.”
Charles Hartshorne (1897–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The reward for living is the living itself.”
Charles Hartshorne (1897–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No one in my family disbelieved in religion, and no one disbelieved in evolution, either.”
Charles Hartshorne (1897–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What we need is to make a renewed attempt to worship the objective of God, not our forefathers' doctrines about him.”
Charles Hartshorne (1897–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Musicians who have listened to birds believe [that birds derive pleasure from singing] much more than ornithologists, who are terrified of being accused of anthropomorphism... Having studied thousands of hours of birdsong from around the world, I am convinced some species possess an aesthetic sense, however limited compared to ours. It is part of human egotism to believe that only we have active minds.”
Charles Hartshorne (1897–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The world has too many automobiles and televisions. Now the standard is there should be one car and TV for every person. This is not healthy for the environment or our souls.”
Charles Hartshorne (1897–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hitler made it impossible to keep believing in pacifism, which was one of the many terrible things he did to the world.”
Charles Hartshorne (1897–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[W]e live in a century in which everything has been said. The challenge today is to learn which statements to deny.”
Charles Hartshorne (1897–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I had a happy, idyllic, old-fashioned childhood. Go to the town where I spent that childhood, you will not find my happy hours there. Yet they remain definite constituents of a divine reality about which true statements can still be made. My happy childhood was a gift my parents and the world offered to God.”
Charles Hartshorne (1897–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Too many intellectuals look down on religion and think it will go away. God is not going to go away. There are far more religious people in the world today than when I was born.”
Charles Hartshorne (1897–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“God thus includes the world; he is, in fact, the totality of world parts, which are indifferently causes and effects. Now AR [absolute perfection in some respects, relative perfection in all others] is equally far from either of these doctrines; thanks to its two-aspect view of God, it is able consistently to embrace all that is positive in either deism or pandeism. AR means that God is, in one aspect of himself, the integral totality of all ordinary causes and effects, but that in another aspect, his essence (which is A), he is conceivable in abstraction from any one or any group of particular, contingent beings (though not from the requirement and the power always to provide himself with some particulars or other, sufficient to constitute in their integrated totality the R aspect of himself at the given moment).”
Charles Hartshorne (1897–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In all countries and in all historical times there have been individuals to whom multitudes have looked for guidance in religion. Buddha, Lao Tse, Confucius, Moses, Zoroaster, Shankara, Jesus, Muhammed, Joseph Smith, and Mary Baker Eddy were such individuals. New examples are to be found within the lives of many of us. Pure democracy or sheer equalitarianism in religious matters is not to be expected of our human nature. Some distinction between leaders or founders and followers or disciples seems to be our destiny. But there is a question of degree, or of qualification. To what extent, or under what conditions, are some individuals, or perhaps is some unique individual, worthy of trust in religious matters? It is in the answer to this question that mistakes can be made.”
Charles Hartshorne (1897–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source