Babel Quotes
26 quotes by 23 authors
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Wide open and unguarded stand our gates And through them presses a wild motley throng Men from the Volga and the Tartar steppes Featureless figures…
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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"I refuse to prove that I exist" says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith, I am nothing." "Oh," says man, "but the Babel…
— Douglas Adams
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How will the Tower of Babel be undone? How will we understand each other in Heaven? Will we all speak English or Dutch or Latin?…
— Peter Kreeft
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Language as the technology of human extension, whose powers of division and separation we know so well, may have been the "Tower of Babel" by…
— Marshall McLuhan
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A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers.
— Alexander Smith
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As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God's…
— Adam Sedgwick
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I firmly believe this ... that without His concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better, than the builders of Babel: We…
— Benjamin Franklin
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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…
— Charles Darwin
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It were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its color and odor, as seek…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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There are the further difficulties of building a population out of a diversity of races, each at a different stage of cultural evolution, some in…
— Arthur Keith
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Let us read the Bible without the ill-fitting colored spectacles of theology, just as we read other books, using our own judgment and reason, listening…
— Luther Burbank
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The news today about 'Atomic bombs' is so horrifying one is stunned. The utter folly of these lunatic physicists to consent to do such work…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.
— Franz Kafka
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There is no better story in the Old Testament, or perhaps the whole Bible, for depicting the difference between the ladder-defined life and the cross-defined…
— Tullian Tchividjian
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Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything…
— Douglas Adams
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I have lived, Sir, a long time and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth -- that God governs…
— Benjamin Franklin
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There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair
— Dante Alighieri
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Above my cradle loomed the bookcase where/ Latin ashes and the dust of Greece/ mingled with novels, history, and verse/ in one dark Babel. I…
— Charles Baudelaire
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... I see the green earth covered with the works of man or with the ruins of men’s work. The pyramids weigh down the earth,…
— Selma Lagerlöf
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At first Babel longed for the use of just two words: Yes and No. But he knew that just to utter a single word would…
— Nicole Krauss
Who Wrote These Babel Quotes
23 authors contributed a total of 26 Babel Quotes as follows: