#babel

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. ↗

— Arthur Keith

#bewildering #building #cultural #different #difficulties

So when your hopes on fire, But you know your desire, Don't hold a glass over the flame, Don't let your heart grow cold, I will call you by name, I will share your road. ↗

— Mumford & Sons

#hopeless-wanderer #lyrics #mumford-and-sons #song #song-lyrics

Man’s guilt in history and in the tides of his own blood has been complicated by technology, the daily seeping falsehearted death. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#existence #inevitable-progress #inverse-tower-of-babel #death

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

#aim #anger #apex #babel #daring

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

— Franz Kafka

#been #build #climbing #had #permitted

Once upon a time there were two countries, at war with each other. In order to make peace after many years of conflict, they decided to build a bridge across the ocean. But because they never learned each other’s language properly, they could never agree on the details, so the two halves of the bridge they started to build never met. To this day the bridge extends far into the ocean from both sides, and simply ends half way, miles in the wrong direction from the meeting point. And the two countries are still at war. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#babylon #borders #bridge #communication #communications

Once upon a time in the land of Shinar, God came down to see the city and the tower. People were united and spoke in one language. Then God confound their language and caused them scattered all over the planet earth. I believe, because of our technology, there will be one computer-based language on earth. Then God will come back again and make us all scattered all over the stars constellation. ↗

— Toba Beta

#earth #god #history #life #man