query on quote

[Beverly Flanigan]

Yes, I think it's Ivan in _The Brothers Karamazov_, justifying his
worldview to Alyosha, maybe in the Grand Inquisitor chapter.  I'm looking
for the exact quote--but I read it in 1963, so it may take a
while!  (Apparently Dostoyevsky was one of Nietszche's heroes.)

At 08:21 AM 6/26/2006, you wrote:
>I kinda remember it from "The Brothers K>" but I last read it in 1962...
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>On 6/25/06, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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>>Does Fred or anyone else have an attestation for the conditional
>>statement variously attributed to Nietzsche or to Dostoyevsky, "If
>>God is dead, everything is permitted"?
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>>LH
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