Franz Kafka Quote

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


18; (9 November 1917) a slight variant of this was published in Parables and Paradoxes (1946): If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without ascending it, the work would have been permitted. - Aphorisms (1918)


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.

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.