All animals communicate. What's special about gossip is that it's not about the here and now. You don't gossip about lions. You… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Increasing the variety of processors. Different processors may use diverse ways to calculate and analyse data. Using several kinds of processors in… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
The truly unique trait of 'Sapiens' is our ability to create and believe fiction. All other animals use their communication system to… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“At heart, the Industrial Revolution has been a revolution in energy conversion. It has demonstrated again and again that there is no… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“At heart, the Industrial Revolution has been a revolution in energy conversion. It has demonstrated again and again that there is no… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The inter-subjective is something that exists within the communication network linking the subjective consciousness of many individuals. If a single individual changes… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Intersubjective entities depend on communication among many humans rather than on the beliefs and feelings of individual humans. Many of the most… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“It’s much the same dilemma that a future historian would face if he had to depict the social world of twenty-first-century teenagers… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“Whereas religion asks us to believe in something, money asks us to believe that other people believe in something” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
