Babel Quotes - page 2

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 books of the Hindoos, or the beliefs of any barbarian. (Charles Darwin)
There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair. View quote
Dante Alighieri
Transhumanists are building the Tower of Babel not to challenge God but to better understand the universe and human beings created in God's image. View quote
Newton Lee
The Tower of Babel fell apart not because of technology but because of languages. View quote
Newton Lee
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. View quote
William Gibson
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 which men sought to scale the highest heavens. Today computers hold out the promise of a means of instant tr. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world to see the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd. View quote
William Cowper
The decisive step in Dante's reflections occurs with the assertion that originally, in an unhistorical time before man's revolt against God-symbolized for Dante in the construction of the tower of Babel-there was only a single language for all men. The fragmentation of this original language begins with the erection of the tower of Babel and, what is essential to this, work-the variety of differently structured activities. For Dante work means to convey a meaning to natural things and thereby to transform them with regard to some particular yet unattained goal. View quote
Ernesto Grassi
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 be to destroy the delicate fluency of silence. View quote
Nicole Krauss
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 to transfuse from one language into another the creations of a poet. The plant must spring again from its seed, or it will bear no flower -- and this is the burthen of the curse of Babel. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
We need to fund relationship language in our schools so that future parents will know how to communicate about whether they want children; to communicate with the children they have, and teach their children how to communicate with the world. Technical progress without social skills is a Tower of Babel. (Warren Farrell)