Our most sacred convictions, the unchanging elements of our supreme values, are judgements of our muscles.

Convictions are prisons.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies

Out of passions grow opinions; mental sloth lets these rigidify into convictions

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 .

Let the young soul survey its own life with a view of the following question: ‘What have you truly loved thus far? What has ever uplifted your soul, what has dominated and delighted it at the same time?