'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, August 18, 2010

on certainty 592



592. “I can tell you what kind of a … that is, and there is no doubt about it.”



yes – you say there is no doubt about it –

and in so saying you reveal yourself as a fool –

or a fraud


© greg t. charlton. 2010.
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