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The reward for living is the living itself.
A hundred years of thinking about God (1998)
Do you remember which way I was heading?
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.
The Philosophy of Charles Hartshorne (1991)
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.
Man's Vision of God and the Logic of Theism (1941)
The secret of my success is longevity.
No one in my family disbelieved in religion, and no one disbelieved in evolution, either.
A hundred years of thinking about God (1998)
I think my great book is Born to Sing: An Interpretation and World Survey of Bird Song.
[W]e live in a century in which everything has been said. The challenge today is to learn which statements to deny.
A hundred years of thinking about God (1998)
the search for necessary truths, truths that are not only true, but they couldn’t have been false.
What we need is to make a renewed attempt to worship the objective of God, not our forefathers' doctrines about him.
A hundred years of thinking about God (1998)
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.
A hundred years of thinking about God (1998)
Hitler made it impossible to keep believing in pacifism, which was one of the many terrible things he did to the world.
A hundred years of thinking about God (1998)
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.
A hundred years of thinking about God (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.
Man's Vision of God and the Logic of Theism (1941)
I have little sympathy with the idea that infanticide is just another form of murder. Persons who are already functionally persons in the full sense have more important rights even than infants. Infanticide can be wrong without being fully comparable to the killing of persons in the full sense.