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Charles Hartshorne Quotes on Truth

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 truth, drawn from across the philosopher's works.

Quotes

  • Attributed to Charles Hartshorne:

    “Reality is process; substance is its abstraction.”

  • Attributed to Charles Hartshorne:

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

  • Attributed to Charles Hartshorne:

    “Becoming includes being; being does not include becoming.”

  • “the search for necessary truths, truths that are not only true, but they couldn’t have been false.”

    In the Veery journal interview in 1996, in reply to the question of "What is the most rewarding aspect of philosophy?" presented by Veery editor Steven Vita, later reprinted in 1997 in the Austin American-Statesman and then quoted from in The New York Times obituary entitled “Charles Hartshorne, Theologian, Is Dead; Proponent of an Activist God Was 103.