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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.”

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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

“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.”

People Care School Literature Stuff Crazy Sacred Instance Damn Verses Modernism Mutants Free Verse School Experience

Author:Patrick Nielsen Hayden

“Do we really have to wander around apologizing for enjoying plot, just because James Wood and a few dozen other arch-aesthetes sniff at it? It's like being careful not to sing pop songs in the shower because some guy in the local alt-weekly is a music snob.”

Guy Song Enjoy Careful Pops Woods Locals Wander Plot Dozen Apologizing Showers Arches Snob Pop Song

Author:Patrick Nielsen Hayden

“Book publishing was never a heaven "run by editors", and it is by no means today a hell "run by accountants." If our "sole interest" was "instant profit," not only would we never do any number of the things we actually do every day, we probably wouldn't be in book publishing at all.”

Ifs Mean Book Running Today Heaven Interest Numbers Hell Profit Instant Editors Sole Publishing Accountants Book Publishing

Author:Patrick Nielsen Hayden

“Waves from moving sources: Adagio. Andante. Allegro moderato.”

Moving Source Wave Adagio

Author:Oliver Heaviside

“I do not yet want to form a hypothesis to test, because as soon as you make a hypothesis, you become prejudiced. Your mind slides into a groove, and once it is in that groove, has difficulty noticing anything outside of it. During this time, my sense must be sharp; that is the main thing - to be sharp, yet open.”

Want Mind Form Tests Difficulty Hypothesis Slides Noticing Groove

Author:Bernd Heinrich

“For to be yong I wald not, for my wis, Off all this warld to mak me lord and king: The more of age, the nerar hevynnis blis.”

Age Lord Kings

Author:Robert Henryson

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