Who said “Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers. What…”?

“Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.”

“Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.”

“The flowers anew, returning seasons bring! But beauty faded has no second spring.”

“The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.”

“Beauty is truth, truth beauty -- that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.”

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

“Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think.”

“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.”