More quotes by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"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."
"It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt."
"We are all happy if we but knew it."
"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."