'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.



Saturday, January 09, 2010

on certainty 223


223. For mightn’t I be crazy and not doubting what I absolutely ought to doubt?



you can doubt –

whether you are crazy or not

there is no decree –

that you should doubt

you will doubt –

if you question

and you will question –

if you think


© greg t. charlton. 2010
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