Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best.

Unter allen Volterschaften haben die Griecher den Traum des Lebens am schonsten getraumt.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Greece

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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German

Time

1819 1810s 19th century

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Writer

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Original Citation

Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. "Individual Points." Ueber Kunst und Altersthum [On Art and Antiquity]. 1826, vol. 5, issue 3.

Current Citation

Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Maxims and Reflections, translated by Elizabeth Stopp, edited by Peter Hutchinson. Penguin Books, 2005, no. 298.

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Hamlet is a name: His speeches and sayings but the idle coinage of the poet's brain. What then, are they not real? They are as real as our own thoughts. Their reality is in the reader's mind. It is we who are Hamlet.

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Martin Heidegger
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Building Dwelling Thinking
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Time
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Heidegger, Martin. "Bauen Wohnen Denken [Building Dwelling Thinking]." Darmstadt Symposium on Man and Space. 5 Aug. 1951, Darmstadt, Germany. Lecture.