Babel Quotes

26 quotes by 23 authors

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
"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
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
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
A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers. — Alexander Smith
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted. — Franz Kafka
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
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
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
There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair — Dante Alighieri
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
... I see the green earth covered with the works of man or with the ruins of menâ€™s work. The pyramids weigh down the earth,… — Selma LagerlÃ¶f
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

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