Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy Quotes
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“Middle ages”
“Christianity”
“৳ No... by no means.”
“The text used is that of Peiper, Leipsic, 1874.”
“As Homer says of the sun, it sees every thing, and hears every thing.”
“৳ But how is it possible... that those things which are foreseen should not befal?”
“৳ No... for if every thing were moved by compulsion, the effects of art would be vain and fruitless.”
“The belief that what once pleased so widely must still have some charm is my excuse for attempting the present translation.”
“For how can any thing happen without design, when all events, through the influence of Almighty Power, are restrained by order?”
“Man likewise is surveyed in different ways; by the senses, by the imagination, by reason, and by intelligence.”
“[W]e must say with Plato, that God is eternal, and the world perpetual.”
“Heavenly substances, who are exalted above us, have an enlightened judgment, an incorruptible will, and a power ever at command effectually to accomplish their desires.”
“৳ [B]ut in this indissoluble chain of causes, can we preserve the liberty of the will? Does this fatal Necessity restrain the motions of the human soul?”
“It is the sentiment of all reasonable creatures, that God is eternal. Let us then consider what eternity is; because this will discover... the nature of God, and of his knowledge.”
“But the eye of Providence, which sees every thing from eternity, perceives all this; and that same Providence disposes every thing she has predestinated, in the order it deserves.”
“৳ "Things, say they, do not necessarily befal, because the Divine Providence hath foreseen they were to happen; but rather, because they were to happen. Providence could not be ignorant of them."”
“৳ What... is there nothing fortuitous? nothing that may be called Chance? is not there any thing, tho' concealed from the apprehensions of the vulgar, to which these appellations may be applied?”
“In the same way, reason, when she considers a thing in general, apprehends both what is perceived by the imagination and the senses, without the assistance of either.”
“৳ Beholding the Muses, the inspirers of song, standing round my bed, and lending words to my grief, she was displeased; and looking upon them with a stern and threatening aspect...”