'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.




Monday, April 26, 2010

on certainty 435


27.3.
435. One is often bewitched by a word. For example, by the word “know”.



the word ‘know’ –

is the natural home of pretense

take pretense out of ‘know’ –

and what you have is an empty shell

if you are ‘bewitched’ by pretense –

you are a fool


© greg t.charlton. 2010.