"The Grand Inquisitor" Quotes
A parable within Dostoyevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov" in which the Grand Inquisitor confronts Christ with questions about human nature and freedom.
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Quotes
The Grand Inquisitor is the only one who has gained the true faith, and who has achieved the only happiness possible on earth.
We are not working with Thee but with him— that is our mystery.
For the secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.
So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship.
In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, 'Make us your slaves, but feed us.'
Then the sick become terribly terrified of death, and the poor of the prison and the dungeon.
The kiss glows in his heart, but the old man adheres to his idea.
It is not miracles that produce faith, but faith that produces miracles.
Without a God, everything is permitted.
The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.
