Hope is a waking dream.
Aristotle (384–322 BC) was Plato's student and Alexander the Great's tutor, and founded the Lyceum in Athens. His work spans logic, biology, ethics, politics, rhetoric and poetics — effectively the whole of the knowledge available to him. The Nicomachean Ethics, where he develops virtue as a mean between extremes, is still read as a living text.
About this theme: Dreams
The word dreams carries two meanings here that are rarely separated: what we dream at night and what we aim at. Older cultures did not draw a firm line between them — dreams were read as messages and aspirations as a summons. Only more recent usage splits the two, and gives nearly all the weight to the second.
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- In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm; in the real world all rests on perseverance.— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.— Mark Twain
- The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.— Friedrich Nietzsche
- Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.— Theodore Roosevelt
- The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result; his duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way.— Nikola Tesla