Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

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

"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."

"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."

"The soul is healed by being with children."

"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."

"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."

"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."