#The Consolation of Philosophy

[aguavida]

“Among wise men there is no place at all left for hatred. For no one except the greatest of fools would hate good men. And there is no reason at all for hating the bad. For just as weakness is a disease of the body, so wickedness is a disease of the mind. And if this is so, since we think of people who are sick in body as deserving sympathy rather than hatred, much more so do they deserve pity rather than blame who suffer an evil more severe than any physical illness.” 

― Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy

#boethius #the consolation of philosophy #philosophy #literature #quotes #goodness #compassion

[elizabethanism]

"The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity."

One of the greatest philosophical texts in the history of philosophy, and greatly unappreciated, Boethius' "The Consolation of Philosophy" should be read by all who love poetry and metaphysics

#Boethius #The Consolation of Philosophy #Time #Eternity #Now

[frivolous-pastel]

I took a 4th year undergraduate course in Chaucer and other like Middle English literature for my undergrad degree and one of the works we read was the consolation of philosophy but like

My only reference point for Boethius prior to that was reading A Confederacy of Dunces for fun

So I had the specter of Ignatius J Reilly in the back of my mind during that entire class unit

#boethius #the consolation of philosophy #a confederacy of dunces #english literature

[holyavarice]

“If the form of this world cannot stay the same, but suffers so many violent changes, what folly it is to trust man’s tumbling fortunes, to rely on things that come and go. One thing is certain, fixed by eternal law: nothing that is born can last.”

“The Consolation of Philosophy”, Lady Philosophy to Boethius

#the consolation of philosophy #boethius #changes

[trailofleaves]

"True friends do not evaluate us according to worldly criteria, it is the core self they are interested in; like ideal parents, their love for us remains unaffected by our appearance or position in the social hierarchy, and so we have no qualms in dressing in old clothes and revealing that we have made little money this year. The desire for riches should perhaps not always be understood as a simple hunger for a luxurious life, a more important motive might be the wish to be appreciated and treated nicely. We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us." — Alain de Botton, The Consolations of Philosophy

#Alain de Botton #philosophy #friendship #the consolation of philosophy

[asthecrowcrafts]

- Boethius (translated by V. E. Watts), The Consolation of Philosophy (Book II, Prose II)

#book quotes #medieval #boethius #law #philosophy #The Consolation of Philosophy #literature #classic literature #classic lit quotes #medieval literature #heart #desire #fortune #v. e. watts

[saint-augustines-pears]

There’s a decent chance that I will disappear again but have hope! I am not dead. I am reading medieval poems.

#i’m busy #i’m working on it #Beowulf was so good #wiglaf supremacy #if you haven’t read the dream of the rood you need to reconsider your life #the consolation of philosophy was funny as hell #but also weird as fuck #boethius when temporal reality means that he can lose the things that appear to give him happiness 😱

[lionofchaeronea]

Checking off another item on my list of "Works I should have read long ago" by reading Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy (De consolatione philosophiae), the great work of spiritual self-healing that in many respects marks the transition from the classical to the medieval worlds. I'm developing more and more of an interest in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages*, and Boethius is powerful evidence that the great classical heritage didn't simply evanesce into nothingness when Rome fell to the "barbarians".

*Assuming one can clearly distinguish between the two periods, which is highly debatable. One must always be careful about imposing modern notions of periodization onto the past; it's unlikely that the average Italian peasant woke up one day and said "Huh. April 12. We must be medieval by now."

#personal #current reading #late antiquity #Latin literature #Boethius #Consolation of Philosophy

[chainmail-butch]

I wonder if Tamsyn Muir has read Boethius

#thinking about the Body and the Consolation of Philosophy

[youngster-monster]

i DO live like this and my discord wips are a mess, i have to literally tag names onto the end of them because my writing style makes me not use names for like 300 words so i have to keep shoehorning the characters names in so that i know which snippet it was and it is Awful you would not believe the sheer state of that snippets channel

sometimes rotting is a very necessary part of the creative process!! on occasion you just have to grow moss and become nothing but bones and after a while it’s like Okay i can write now :)

fic writing is so EASY compared to all the context and lore and world building and character growth nd MAN i just wanted to write my silly guys being silly but now i have a doc open to the lore of how gods work so that my stupid guy will make a little more sense!!! what IS this!!!!!! when i write fanfiction i just sit down and recount wow lore to myself for 30 minutes while making beastly noises and then i’m normal again and can write fanfiction!! obviously fic writing is still difficult because of.. the horrors.. but at least i can blame the faults in my fic on blizzard :)

i was about to fight for the honor of my Totally Organized Discord WIPs but then i thought about it and yeah.. yeah. they’re kind of. messy… they all have individual channels and i am too scared to look thru them lest the spirit of my old work come alive to kill me or something

my ships are always so stupidly niche i can almost guarantee you my wip would be the first fic in MONTHS if not EVER for some of these anime fandoms i had one for a ship that didn’t even have a TAG i didn’t even know what to do i was so startled!! on the bright side though by virtue of simply posting a fic it could potentially spur other people to write about it which would be a net gain so… perhaps!

that is so real of you.. i don’t have any right actually i just remembered i used to try to read fanfic on my 3ds and it was terrible it wouldn’t even load the page half the time and i frequently had to mess with the internet because my 3ds hated staying connected to wi-fi

They Are In Character To Me (putting a blanket over canon characterization) in my heart this Is how they are in canon and if you try to tell me otherwise? well uhhhh uh (i explode)

staring in fascination and dread at whatever you're doing with your fic organization. i cannot stress enough how insane it sounds. compels me though

you're 100% right. i don't write i mostly Shamble and Crawl, shedding moss and fungi after myself,

be careful anon. the line between "quick lore to make things make sense" and "oops! all worldbuilding!" is very thin. then again if you go over too much you can just turn the whole thing into a ttrpg campaign for your friends or something :)

independant channels of discord wips 🤝 one gargantuan wip document in your notes app striking the fear of god into the writer's heart at the thought of digging through the damn thing

being the one (1) person to write for a ship is Better Than Drugs actually and you should definitely do it,

#asks #anonymous #making a story idea into a ttrpg campaign CAN be considered entrapment #because you trick people into caring about your ocs and suddenly you have the world's tiniest most obsessive fandom for your silly guys #'sit down and recount wow lore to myself for 30 minutes while making beastly noises' ended me btw. mood. #my current philosophy is 'forgot to mention this so things don't really make sense. it's fine because blizzard did the exact same thing' #reading fics on the 3ds...good times #i read the entirety of bend around the wind (tony stark/loki fanfiction) like this and it definitely added to the experience #the poor console was so bad at loading ffnet

[quotessentially]

From Seneca’s To Polybius, On Consolation

#quote #quotes #Seneca #To Polybius On Consolation #words #books #philosophy

[aguavida]

“All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.” 

― Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy

#boethius #the consolation of philosophy #philosophy #literature #fortune #life #quotes

[elizabethanism]

“The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.”

—Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy.

#Boethius #The Consolation of Philosophy #time #eternity #Now

[holyavarice]

Speak out, don’t hide what troubles you. If you want a doctor’s help, you must uncover your wound.

Lady Philosophy to Boethius, Book I, Prose 4

#the consolation of philosophy #boethius

[trailofleaves]

"Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to." — Alain de Botton, The Consolations of Philosophy

#Alain de Botton #the consolations of philosophy #books

[veryslowreader]

On the Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius

2012  

#on the consolation of philosophy #boethius #2012 #chiwetel ejiofor