Religion Quotes by Yuval Noah Harari

“The Data Religion”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“and there are even cases of religiously inspired human sacrifice.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“A large part of our artistic creativity, our political commitment and our religious piety is fuelled by the fear of death.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“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

“rise of a number of new natural-law religions, such as liberalism, Communism, capitalism, nationalism and Nazism. These”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“because whereas religion asks us to believe in something, money asks us to believe that other people believe in something.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Many previous religions gained enormous popularity and power despite their factual inaccuracies.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Osama Bin Laden, for all his hatred of American culture, American religion and American politics, was very fond of American dollars.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The most interesting emerging religion is Dataism, which venerates neither gods nor man – it worships data.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“religion asks us to believe in something, money asks us to believe that other people believe in something.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Religion can thus be defined as a system of human norms and values that is founded on a belief in a superhuman…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Some religions, such as Christianity and Nazism, have killed millions out of burning hatred. Capitalism has killed millions out of cold indifference…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Around the time that Homo sapiens was elevated to divine status by humanist religions, farm animals stopped being viewed as living creatures…

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“Even plants and animals were mechanised. Around the time that Homo sapiens was elevated to divine status by humanist religions, farm animals…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Philosophers, priests and poets have brooded over the nature of happiness for millennia, and many have concluded that social, ethical and spiritual…

— Yuval Noah Harari

If you don't like the word 'religion,' you can replace it with 'ideology' - it's largely the same thing. At the heart…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Data religion now says that your every word and action is part of the great data flow, that the algorithms are constantly…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Throughout history, religions and ideologies did not sanctify life itself. They always sanctified something above or beyond earthly existence, and were consequently…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The capitalist and consumerist ethics are two sides of the same coin, a merger of two commandments. The supreme commandment of the…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“We often associate science with the values of secularism and tolerance. If so, early modern Europe is the last place you would…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“All too often people confuse religion with superstition, spirituality, belief in supernatural powers or belief in gods. Religion is none of these…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Money is more open-minded than language, state laws, cultural codes, religious beliefs and social habits. Money is the only trust system created…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Theist religions focus on the worship of gods. Humanist religions worship humanity, or more correctly, Homo sapiens. Humanism is a belief that…

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“Similarly, the fact that another person believes in cowry shells, or dollars, or electronic data, is enough to strengthen our own belief…

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“Corporations, money and nations exist only in our imagination. We invented them to serve us; why do we find ourselves sacrificing our…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“we have only the haziest notions about the religions of ancient foragers. We assume that they were animists, but that’s not very…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Whereas religion asks us to believe in something, money asks us to believe that other people believe in something”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Religions that lose touch with the technological realities of the day lose their ability even to understand the questions being asked.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“as collective institutions, science and religion prefer order and power over truth.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Religion can thus be defined as a system of human norms and values that is founded on a belief in a superhuman…

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“Yet, in fact, religion has been the third great unifier of humankind, alongside money and empires.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“These new techno-religions can be divided into two main types: techno-humanism and data religion”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“nobody really knows what the job market, the family or the ecology will look like in 2050, or which religions, economic systems…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The supreme value of this new religion is ‘information flow’. If life is the movement of information, and if we think that…

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“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

“The first monotheist religion known to us appeared in Egypt, c.1350 BC, when Pharaoh Akhenaten declared that one of the minor deities…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Data religion now says that your every word and action is part of the great dataflow, that the algorithms are constantly watching…

— Yuval Noah Harari

If you think about the great religions that have united large parts of humankind, people believe gods are very concrete - there…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“We normally think that theist religions sanctified the great gods. We tend to forget that they sanctified humans, too. Hitherto Homo sapiens…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Most people, they get overwhelmed by the religious stories, the nationalist stories, by the economic stories of the day, and take these…

— Yuval Noah Harari