'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.



Tuesday, November 17, 2009

on certainty 160

160. The child learns by believing the adult. Doubt comes after belief.



doubt may come after belief –

and it may – just as equally – come before belief

before or after – it doesn’t matter –

you don’t learn if you don’t question


© greg t. charlton. 2009.
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