Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"The soul is healed by being with children."

"It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt."

"It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half."

"Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being."

"If someone proved to me that Christ is outside the truth, and that in reality the truth were outside of Christ, then I should prefer to remain with Christ rather than with the truth."

"Without God all things are permitted."

"Without God all things are permitted."

"The soul is healed by being with children."

"Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled."

"Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being."

"Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being."

"We are all happy if we but knew it."

"originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle."

"To love someone means to see them as God intended them."