'For the person or persons that hold dominion, can no more combine with the keeping up of majesty the running with harlots drunk or naked about the streets, or the performances of a stage player, or the open violation or contempt of laws passed by themselves than they can combine existence with non-existence'.

- Benedict de Spinoza. Political Treatise. 1677.




Friday, July 17, 2009

on certainty 70


70. For months I have lived at address A, I have read the name of the street and the number of the house countless times, have received countless letters and have given countless people the address. If I am wrong about it, the mistake is hardly less than if I were (wrongly) to believe I was writing Chinese and not German.



you have beliefs that you operate with –

and regardless of how strongly you hold to them –

they are open to question – open to doubt


© greg t. charlton. 2009.