Marius Victorinus Quotes
Gaius Marius Victorinus was a Roman rhetorician, grammarian, Neoplatonist philosopher, and Latin Christian theologian whose late conversion in Rome around 355 became a pattern that helped inspire Augustine's own. Honored with a public statue in the Forum of Trajan as a leading teacher of rhetoric, he translated some of the works of Plotinus and Porphyry into Latin and so brought Neoplatonic thought to a Latin-reading Christian audience for the first time. The quotes below are attributed to Marius Victorinus, organized by topic.
Marius Victorinus on God
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Attributed to Marius Victorinus:
“The Word is the act of being itself.”
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Attributed to Marius Victorinus:
“God is being, and being is the source of all that is.”
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Attributed to Marius Victorinus:
“Trinity is unity in motion, distinction without division.”
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Attributed to Marius Victorinus:
“True conversion is the soul's return to its source.”
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Attributed to Marius Victorinus:
“The path of philosophy ends in worship.”