More quotes by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"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."
"Without God all things are permitted."
"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."