The Philosopher
Boethius
The face
The background
- Nationality:
- Roman
- Schools:
- Neoplatonism, Scholasticism
- Branchs:
- Neoplatonism, Logic, Theology, Music, Mathematics, Epistemology, Fate
- Period:
- Early Middle Ages
The synopsis
The works
De consolatione philosophiae
De topicis differentiis
De arithmetica
De institutione musica
Opuscula sacra
The quotes
If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?
A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
Nothing is miserable unless you think it is so.
Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.