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If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.

If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.

Climbing, Hiking, Tower Of Babel

Franz Kafka (2016). “Konundrum: Selected Prose of Franz Kafka”, p.354, Archipelago

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 anger; but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex.

Adam Sedgwick

Philosophy, Pyramids, Tower Of Babel

What [Franz] Kafka says about the Tower of Babel: In the beginning there were actually many languages, and then as a punishment God gave the world a single language. And then they stopped understanding each other.

Elie Wiesel

Punishment, Understanding, Tower Of Babel

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Our Lord never called His people to help build the tower of Babel in the hope of getting a Bible study in the basement. He commanded us to build our own city on a hill.

David Chilton

Cities, People, Tower Of Babel

Throughout Finnegans Wake Joyce specifies the Tower of Babel as the tower of Sleep, that is, the tower of the witless assumption, or what Bacon calls the reign of the Idols.

Marshall McLuhan

Sleep, Idols, Tower Of Babel

Marshall McLuhan, W. Terrence Gordon, Elena Lamberti, Dominique Scheffel-Dunand (2011). “The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man”, p.208, University of Toronto Press

We monitor many frequencies. We listen always. Came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. It played us a mighty dub.

William Gibson

Voice, Tongue, Babel

William Gibson (2000). “Neuromancer”, p.96, Penguin

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 life than that of the Tower of Babel.

Tullian Tchividjian

Differences, Tower Of Babel, Towers

If one attempts to achieve deity or to have the holy, he is thrown back; he is refused. His language is taken from him. He can no longer even communicate. That's the Tower of Babel.

Frank Moore Cross

Taken, Tower Of Babel, Towers

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