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Charles Hartshorne Quotes on Love

Charles Hartshorne was an American philosopher and the principal interpreter and developer of Whitehead's process metaphysics. This page collects quotes attributed to Charles Hartshorne on the topic of love, drawn from across the philosopher's works.

Quotes

  • Attributed to Charles Hartshorne:

    “God is the supremely related being, related to all that is.”

  • Attributed to Charles Hartshorne:

    “Love is the inclusive virtue, embracing all the others.”

  • Attributed to Charles Hartshorne:

    “Each moment of experience adds new richness to the divine life.”

  • “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), edited by Lewis Edwin Hahn, p. 700