What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.

Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man.

I can no longer say my love and your love; they are both alike in their perfect mutuality.

Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.

A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.

As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.

The following are the universally fundamental laws of literary communication: 1. one must have something to communicate; 2. one must have someone to whom to communicate it; 3. one must really communicate it, not merely express it for oneself alone. Otherwise it would be more to the point to remain silent.