All 6 Uses of
impotent
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish like a pitiful mirage, like the despicable fabrication of the impotent and infinitely small Euclidian mind of man, that in the world's finale, at the moment of eternal harmony, something so precious will come to pass that it will suffice for all hearts, for the comforting of all resentments, for the atonement of all the crimes of humanity, of all…†
Chpt 5
- There are three powers, three powers alone, able to conquer and to hold captive for ever the conscience of these impotent rebels for their happiness—those forces are miracle, mystery and authority.†
Chpt 5
- But they will see at last, the foolish children, that, though they are rebels, they are impotent rebels, unable to keep up their own rebellion.†
Chpt 5 *
- They will tremble impotently before our wrath, their minds will grow fearful, they will be quick to shed tears like women and children, but they will be just as ready at a sign from us to pass to laughter and rejoicing, to happy mirth and childish song.†
Chpt 5
- He heaps up riches by himself and thinks, 'How strong I am now and how secure,' and in his madness he does not understand that the more he heaps up, the more he sinks into self-destructive impotence.†
Chpt 6
- But throwing your own indolence and impotence on others you will end by sharing the pride of Satan and murmuring against God.†
Chpt 6
Definition:
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(impotent as in: impotent fury) lacking power or ability