“Everything that is known is comprehended not according to its own nature, but according to the nature of the one who knows it.”Boethius · Mângâierile filozofiei · 524 · Cartea V, proza 6
Every act of knowing bears the knower's imprint, not just the thing known.
Philosophy shows Boethius that each level of knowing processes its object through its own capacities: the senses grasp matter, reason grasps the abstract, and the divine mind grasps all at a single glance. The mechanism is reception according to the receiver's mode — the eye does not see sound, the ear does not hear color. The same event looks different to a witness, a historian, and a statistician.
Why it matters The line explains why people with identical data reach different conclusions: the instrument of knowing matters as much as the facts.