“Humankind was salvaged not by the law of supply and demand, but rather by the rise of a revolutionary new religion – humanism.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“This is the primary commandment humanism has given us: create meaning for a meaningless world.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
For thousands of years, humans believed that authority came from the gods. Then, during the modern era, humanism gradually shifted authority from… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Whereas the Agricultural Revolution gave rise to theist religions, the Scientific Revolution gave birth to humanist religions, in which humans replaced gods.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
The feelings of the individual are the prime authority in ethics. 'If it feels good, do it' is the basic ethical ideal… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Techno-humanism aims to amplify the power of humans, creating cyborgs and connecting humans to computers, but it still sees human interests and… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“What’s the point of having democratic elections when the algorithms know not only how each person is going to vote, but also… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Humanism split into three main branches. The orthodox branch holds that each human being is a unique individual possessing a distinctive inner… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“This was the basis for the modern alliance between science and humanism, which kept the delicate balance between the modern yang and… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Yes, God is a product of the human imagination, but human imagination in turn is just the product of biochemical algorithms.’ In… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Homo Sapiens Loses Control Can humans go on running the world and giving it meaning? How do biotechnology and artificial intelligence threaten… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Leave science out of it and live in accordance with a non-scientific absolute truth. This has been the strategy of liberal humanism,… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“If I believe in God at all, it is my choice to believe. If my inner self tells me to believe in… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Theist religions focus on the worship of gods. Humanist religions worship humanity, or more correctly, Homo sapiens. Humanism is a belief that… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Indeed, techno-humanism may end up downgrading humans. The system may prefer downgraded humans not because they would possess any superhuman knacks, but… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Humanism holds that experiences occur inside us, and that we ought to find within ourselves the meaning of all that happens, thereby… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as humanism gained increasing social credibility and political power, it sprouted two very different offshoots: socialist… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“For similar reasons, archaic humans did not initiate any revolutions. As far as we can tell, changes in social patterns, the invention of new… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share
“Today the main source of wealth is knowledge. And whereas you can conquer oil fields through war, you cannot acquire knowledge that way.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share
“How do you cause people to believe in an imagined order such as Christianity, democracy or capitalism? First, you never admit that the order… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share
I think the basic thing that happened is we have lost our story. Humans think in stories, and we try to make sense of… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share
“Whereas chimpanzees spend five hours a day chewing raw food, a single hour suffices for people eating cooked food. The advent of cooking enabled… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share
“Whereas liberalism merged with the milder versions of nationalism to protect the unique experiences of each human community, evolutionary humanists such as Hitler identified… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share
“Corporations, money and nations exist only in our imagination. We invented them to serve us; why do we find ourselves sacrificing our lives in… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share
“Small children in affluent societies often dislike showering, and it takes them years of education and parental discipline to adopt this supposedly attractive custom.… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share
“Ever more scholars see cultures as a kind of mental infection or parasite, with humans as its unwitting host. Organic parasites, such as viruses,… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share
“Soviet Communism was a fanatical and missionary religion. A devout Communist could not be a Christian or a Buddhist, and was expected to spread… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share
“Whereas religion asks us to believe in something, money asks us to believe that other people believe in something” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share
“Terrorists are like a fly that tries to destroy a china shop. The fly is so weak that it cannot budge even a single… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share
“Yet what happens if the greedy shoemaker increases his profits by paying employees less and increasing their work hours? The standard answer is that… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share
“A natural order is a stable order. There is no chance that gravity will cease to function tomorrow, even if people stop believing in… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share
