Bernard Silvestris Quotes

Bernard Silvestris was a Latin Platonist philosopher and poet of the twelfth-century Renaissance, master at the cathedral school of Tours, and one of the central figures of the so-called School of Chartres. His Cosmographia, a prosimetric philosophical poem on the creation of the world, dramatized the Platonic doctrine of the world soul and the providential ordering of nature in a sustained Christian-Platonist allegory, while his Mathematicus, on a son who has slain his father in fulfillment of a horoscope, dealt philosophically with the relation of fate, providence, and human responsibility. The quotes below are attributed to Bernard Silvestris, organized by topic.