Who said “He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.”?

“All this talk and turmoil and noise and movement and desire is outside of the veil; within the veil is silence and calm and rest.”

“In antiquity there was only silence. In the nineteenth century, with the invention of the machine, Noise was born. Today, Noise triumphs and reigns supreme over the sensibility of men.”

“The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.”

“For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding. It is for hearing. It is not legible, but audible. Our science has always desired to monitor, measure, abstract, and castrate meaning, forgetting that life is full of noise and that death alone is silent: work noise, noise of man, and noise of beast. Noise bought, sold, or prohibited. Nothing essential happens in the absence of noise.”

“The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.”

“An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.”

“Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.”

“Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.”

“What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.”

“It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.”