Anatole France (1844–1924) French writer
Philopatris, xxi, as translated in the epigraph, p. 8
The White Stone (1905)
“You seem to have dreamt on the white stone, in the midst of the people of dreams, since you dreamt so long a dream in the course of so short a night.”
Source: The White Stone (1905), Ch. VI, p. 237
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“Among all peoples, the Greeks have dreamt life's dream most beautifully.”
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Unter allen Völkerschaften haben die Griechen den Traum des Lebens am schönsten geträumt.
Maxim 298, trans. Stopp
Variant translation by Saunders: Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life the best. (189)
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“My soul is nothing now but the dream dreamt by matter struggling with itself!”
Paul Valéry (1871–1945) French poet, essayist, and philosopher
Eryximachus, p. 27
L'Âme et la danse (1921)
“Upon the brink of the wild stream
He stood, and dreamt a mighty dream.”
Aleksandr Pushkin The Bronze Horseman
Original: (ru) На берегу пустынных волн Стоял он, дум великих полн.
Source: The Bronze Horseman (1833) trans. Charles Johnston.
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Commenting upon the Aleinu prayer, in "Why We Remain Jews" (1962)
Context: The kingdom is Yours, and You will reign in glory for all eternity. As it is written in Your Torah: "The Lord shall reign for ever and ever." And it is said: " And the Lord shall be King over all the earth: on that day the Lord shall be One, and His name One."
No nobler dream was ever dreamt. It is surely nobler to be a victim of the most noble dream than to profit from a sordid reality and to wallow in it. Dream is akin to aspiration. And aspiration is a kind of divination of an enigmatic vision. And an enigmatic vision in the emphatic sense is the perception of the ultimate mystery, of the truth of the ultimate mystery. The truth of the ultimate mystery — the truth that there is an ultimate mystery, that being is radically mysterious — cannot be denied even by the unbelieving Jew of our age. That unbelieving Jew of our age, if he has any education, is ordinarily a positivist, a believer in Science, if not a positivist without any education.
