Who said “Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking…”?

“Speech is the small change of silence.”

“I don't want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.”

“Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.”

“Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.”

“Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech.”

“Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.”

“Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers. What we call art is a game.”

“Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.”

“If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.”

“We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.”

“Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.”