'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.




Wednesday, March 31, 2010

on certainty 381

381.  This “nothing in the world” is obviously an attitude which one hasn’t got towards everything one believes or is certain of.



yes – it is the attitude of ignorance and prejudice


© greg t. charlton. 2010.