A very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions; rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one's convictions.

Triumph depends on a roll of Fate's dice; the ultimate prize is a place in Heaven.

Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.

Linguistic danger to spiritual freedom.- Every word is a prejudice.

It quite often happens that the old man is subject to the delusion of a great moral renewal and rebirth, and from this experience he passes judgments on the work and course of his life, as if he had only now become clear-sighted; and yet the inspiration behind this feeling of well-being and these confident judgements is not wisdom, but weariness .

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

Necessity is an interpretation, not a fact.