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“I think my great book is Born to Sing: An Interpretation and World Survey of Bird Song.”

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Charles Hartshorne was an American philosopher born on June 5, 1897, and died on October 9, 2000. He was one of the leading figures in process philosophy, known for his contributions to religious philosophy, metaphysics, and logic. more

“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.”

World Mean Causes Effects Ordinary Independent Cause And Effect Totality Pantheism

Author:Charles Hartshorne

“We live in a century in which everything has been said. The challenge today is to learn which statements to deny.”

Has Beens Said Today Challenges Century Deny Statements

Author:Charles Hartshorne

“A scholar like myself who is not a Sinologist and yet ventures the proposition that Chinese languages should be rewritten in the Greek alphabet (or "Romanized", to use the current term) is treading on uncharted territory (for him) and does so at his peril.”

Should Doe Use Language Term Currents Chinese Greek Territory Scholar Venture Propositions Peril Alphabet Uncharted Treading Uncharted Territory Chinese Language

Author:Eric A. Havelock

“Over the years, I have become convinced that Hellenism as a culture represents not a static condition of uniform sublimity mysteriously achieved and maintained as an effect of some racial advantage. Rather it should be understood as an evolving process, governed by a dynamic of change, as both language and thought underwent transformational alteration caused by a transition from orality to literacy. The instrument of change is discerned to be the invention of the Greek alphabet, at a quite late stage in the history of developing cultures.”

“Could it be argued that if the Chinese revolution seems to be a response to the needs of rural society, whereas the Russian is an urbanized phenomenon, this difference corresponds to that which exists between the users of two different forms of written communication, the one archaic, the other alphabetic?”

Ifs Needs Two Different Seems Form Differences Written Communication Revolution Response Chinese Phenomenon Users Chinese Revolution

Author:Eric A. Havelock

“Love can do much, but duty more.”

Love Can Do Duty

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“So many people's school experience contains at least one instance of being looked down upon because they didn't care for one or more of the sacred mutant outcroppings of High Modernism, and they concluded from this that Literature is all about impenetrable stuff that they don't like. That damn Hemingway with his crazy free verse.”

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Author:Patrick Nielsen Hayden

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