A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers. — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
“Whatever truths or fables you may find in a thousand books, it is all a tower of Babel unless love holds it… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
How will the Tower of Babel be undone? How will we understand each other in Heaven? Will we all speak English or… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“We must remember this when we are ready to reach for the sky. God came down and confused man's language and scattered… — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
Our Lord never called His people to help build the tower of Babel in the hope of getting a Bible study in… — David Chilton Copy Share Image
Where liberals see as an ever-more-splendid diversity of colors, creeds, ethnicities, ideologies, beliefs and lifestyles, the Right sees the disintegration of a… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
“What this means is not a single Tower of Babel plotted in common, but hundreds of thousands of separate beginnings, the length… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“Where's your common sense? None of those books agree with each other. You've been locked up here for years with a regular… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
There's an arrogance of assuming that we can interpret the past - that we've left the right footnotes, that we're doing the… — Oneohtrix Point Never Copy Share Image
As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a… — Adam Sedgwick Copy Share Image
“We working scientists increasingly find ourselves living in a kind of Tower of Babel, where it’s harder and harder to stay abreast… — Peter Doherty Copy Share Image
“Speech does not always unravel matters. Words can betray you, their labyrinthine threads tangled in knots, for we were cursed at that… — Ned Hayes Copy Share Image
“For socialism is not merely the labour question, it is before all things the atheistic question, the question of the form taken… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“From The Ghost Wars- on the concept of the Torah as ancient science fiction. “Take the story of the fall of the… — Cole J. Davis Copy Share Image
I had gradually come, by this time [1839-01], to see that the Old Testament from its manifestly false history of the world,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God. The guy who built the Tower of Babel was the first artist.… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“Transhumanism encapsulates a long-lived error among the headliners of science: in a world without a destination, we cannot even break ground on… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
Wide open and unguarded stand our gates And through them presses a wild motley throng Men from the Volga and the Tartar… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
... I see the green earth covered with the works of man or with the ruins of men’s work. The pyramids weigh… — Selma Lagerlöf Copy Share Image
“As soon as he reflected seriously he was convinced of the existence of God and immortality, and at once he instinctively said… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“BUT THERE WAS SOMETHING QUITE BEAUTIFUL about this new thing with Betsy. She was taking me somewhere. I’d known enough older guys… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“The New Tower of Babel and its fellow houses stretched their somber heights high above the cathedral spire, that the young girls… — Thea von Harbou Copy Share Image
“The Buried Woman // Die Begrabene In life we all pursued our aims. What held us up was lust and games. What… — Gertrud Kolmar Copy Share Image
“I've been strongly influenced, in technique as well as subject matter, by some of the early 20th-century book illustrators — Arthur Rackham… — Alan Lee Copy Share Image
“Until the Tower of Babel, humans had only planted and sown, reaped and harvested. Farmers are dependent upon nature and, in their… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
“Do you know why teachers use me? Because I speak in tongues. I write metaphors. Every one of my stories is a… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Race instinct, sense of nationality, enmity, and hatred, these are divisive forces between peoples. This is an astonishing punishment and a terrible… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“The particular myth that's been organizing this talk, and in a way the whole series, is the story of the Tower of… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
“The Tower of Babel"... The undersigned citizens, being artists, painters, sculptors, architects, and others devoted to and desirous preserving the amenities of… — Carol McCleary Copy Share Image
“Waiting for the end, boys, waiting for the end. What is there to be or do? What's become of me or you?… — William Empson Copy Share Image
“...Whilst on board the Beagle I was quite orthodox, and I remember being heartily laughed at by several of the officers... for… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“...That, however, was not what our scholar was concerned to prove; for he maintained that the Great Wall alone would provide for… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“It is well known that Pentecost reverses Babel. The people who built the tower of Babel sought to make a name, and… — Kevin J. Vanhoozer Copy Share Image
The collapse of the Tower of Babel is perhaps the central urban myth. It is certainly the most disquieting. In Babylon, the… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
“There are two types of people in the world. There are the people who understand instinctively that the story of The Flood… — Steven Hall Copy Share Image
Language as the technology of human extension, whose powers of division and separation we know so well, may have been the "Tower… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Everything wrong with America led to the point where the country built that tower of Babel, which consequently had to be destroyed.… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Throughout Finnegans Wake Joyce specifies the Tower of Babel as the tower of Sleep, that is, the tower of the witless assumption,… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“Brothers in one great family, children lose their common features only when they lose their innocence, which is the same everywhere. Then… — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
![“I had gradually come, by this time [1839-01], to see that the Old Testament from its manifestly false history of the world, with the Tower of Babel, the rainbow as a sign, etc., etc. and from its attributing to God the feelings of a revengeful tyrant, was no more to be trusted than the sacred…” quote by Charles Darwin](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/00a/charles-darwin-507_babel_i-had-gradually-come-by-this-time-1839-0_1785401.jpg)
