'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, January 22, 2010

on certainty 246


246. “Here I have arrived at a foundation of all my beliefs.” This position I will hold!” But isn’t that, precisely, only because I am completely convinced of it? What is ‘being completely convinced’ like?



if I have arrived at the foundation of all my beliefs –

I have just stopped asking questions –

I have stopped thinking

what is ‘being completely convinced’ like?

it’s ‘like’  being stupid


© greg t. charlton. 2010.
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