People | Nov 07, 2020 The collapse of the Tower of Babel is perhaps the central urban myth. It is certainly the most disquieting. In Babylon, the great city that fascinated and horrified the Biblical writers, people of different races and languages, drawn together in pursuit of wealth, tried for the first time to live together - and failed. Quotes by Neil MacGregor
God | Nov 07, 2020 The city Babel is the Ham-like man, who builds this city upon the earth; the tower is his self-chosen god, and divine worship. All reason-taught, from the school of this world, are the master-builders of this tower. Quotes by Jakob Bohme
Possible | Nov 07, 2020 If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted. Quotes by Franz Kafka
Difficulties | Nov 07, 2020 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 need of restraint, many in need of protection; everywhere a bewildering Babel of tongues. Quotes by Arthur Keith