“Among all peoples, the Greeks have dreamt life's dream most beautifully.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections (1833), Maxim 298 (translation by Elisabeth Stopp)

About Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

1749 – 1832

German poet and polymath, author of "Faust".

“Youth is intoxication without wine.”

“When we lack ourselves, we lack everything.”

“But what is your duty? What the day demands.”

“We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”

“Myths are made for the imagination to breathe life into them.”

“Tell me not, in mournful numbers, life is but an empty dream!”

“Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?”

“Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.”

“Imagine what life would be like without imagination!”