“I've got a thing for footwear; I have about 200 pairs of shoes from all over the world.” Quote by Sophie Ellis Bextor
“Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man.” ThinkingMenInfiniteFinite Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.” ShouldFoundLiteratureEducationMankindDepthPhilosopherVersatilityBest Poetry Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.” SpiritLiteratureWitExplosionsCompounds Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated.” InspirationLiteratureWittyEducatedEngagement Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.” LiteratureTreatedFeminineIdealistic Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dwell. He is an abyss of individuality, the only infinite plenitude.” WorldSpiritEternalInfiniteIndividualityInvisibleIndividualismAbyssEternal LifePlenitude Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be.” MenWellsTwoMightArtistLiteratureRespectRidiculousGrotesque Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.” FeelingsPainFormReligionLiteratureHumilityQuietHatredAngerSmileConsumingSweetestSereneChildlike Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages.” UseLiteratureLanguageOriginalsMethodAncientMisunderstood Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.” KnowsMenDoeSelfAgeLiteratureCommunityMastersGeniusFellowsHistoricalBirthdaySelf KnowledgeFellow ManProminent Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel