Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

"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."

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

"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."

"Without God all things are permitted."

"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."

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

"The soul is healed by being with children."

"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."

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

"The soul is healed by being with children."

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

"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."