Charles Hartshorne: Quotes about ideas and thoughts

Charles Hartshorne was Philosopher. Explore interesting quotes on idea.
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“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

Omnipotence and Other Theological Mistakes (1984)

God , People , Truth , Religion

“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

The Logic of Perfection and Other Essays in Neoclassical Metaphysics (1962) p. viii.

Idea

“[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

Omnipotence and Other Theological Mistakes (1984)

Idea , Nature , Suffering , Perfection

“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

The Philosophy of Charles Hartshorne (1991), edited by Lewis Edwin Hahn, p. 700

Soul , God , Heart , Idea