'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.




Tuesday, August 24, 2010

on certainty 611



611. Where two principles really do meet which cannot be reconciled, then each man declares the other a fool and a heretic. 



yes – this does happen –

but if you realize that your principle –

is just as uncertain as the next man’s –

then you will have no reason –

to rubbish him


© greg t. charlton. 2010.