Faith Quotes by Yuval Noah Harari

23 Faith quotes by Yuval Noah Harari

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Harari’s sweeping view of humanity often lands on the power of shared belief. In twenty‑three lines you’ll see how he ties ancient rituals to modern narratives, offering a concise yet provocative lens on faith.

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“Every culture has its typical beliefs, norms and values, but these are in constant flux.”

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“A hundred years hence, our belief in democracy and human rights might look equally incomprehensible to our descendants. Dreamtime”

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“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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“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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“We always believe in ‘the truth’; only other people believe in superstitions.”

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“An objective phenomenon exists independently of human consciousness and human beliefs. Radioactivity, for example, is not a myth. Radioactive emissions occurred long…

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“All large-scale human cooperation is ultimately based on our belief in imagined orders. These are sets of rules that, despite existing only…

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“However, the Scientific Revolution freed humankind from this conviction. The greatest scientific discovery was the discovery of ignorance. Once humans realised how…

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“Unlike lying, an imagined reality is something that everyone believes in, and as long as this communal belief persists, the imagined reality…

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“Leave science out of it and live in accordance with a non-scientific absolute truth. This has been the strategy of liberal humanism,…

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“The subjective is something that exists depending on the consciousness and beliefs of a single individual. It disappears or changes if that…

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“Modernity, in contrast, is based on the firm belief that economic growth is not only possible, but absolutely essential... Modernity has turned…

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“The crucial historical role of religion has been to give superhuman legitimacy to these fragile structures. Religions assert that our laws are…

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“This law, known as dharma or dhamma, is seen by Buddhists as a universal law of nature. That ‘suffering arises from craving’…

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“If I believe in God at all, it is my choice to believe. If my inner self tells me to believe in…

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“But in its extreme form, belief in the free market is as naive as belief in Santa Claus. There simply is no…

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“The inter-subjective is something that exists within the communication network linking the subjective consciousness of many individuals. If a single individual changes…

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“The Theory of Relativity makes nobody angry because it doesn't contradict any of our cherished beliefs. Most people don't care an iota…

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“Modern culture rejects this belief in a great cosmic plan. We are not actors in any larger-than-life drama. Life has no script,…

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“Intersubjective entities depend on communication among many humans rather than on the beliefs and feelings of individual humans. Many of the most…

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

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“Cultural ideas live inside the minds of humans. They multiply and spread from one host to another, occasionally weakening the hosts and…

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“But in its extreme form, belief in the free market is as naïve as belief in Santa Claus. There simply is no…

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“For similar reasons, archaic humans did not initiate any revolutions. As far as we can tell, changes in social patterns, the invention of new…

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“Today the main source of wealth is knowledge. And whereas you can conquer oil fields through war, you cannot acquire knowledge that way.”

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“How do you cause people to believe in an imagined order such as Christianity, democracy or capitalism? First, you never admit that the order…

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“Whereas liberalism merged with the milder versions of nationalism to protect the unique experiences of each human community, evolutionary humanists such as Hitler identified…

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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 lives in…

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“Small children in affluent societies often dislike showering, and it takes them years of education and parental discipline to adopt this supposedly attractive custom.…

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“Ever more scholars see cultures as a kind of mental infection or parasite, with humans as its unwitting host. Organic parasites, such as viruses,…

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“Soviet Communism was a fanatical and missionary religion. A devout Communist could not be a Christian or a Buddhist, and was expected to spread…

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

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“Terrorists are like a fly that tries to destroy a china shop. The fly is so weak that it cannot budge even a single…

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“Yet what happens if the greedy shoemaker increases his profits by paying employees less and increasing their work hours? The standard answer is that…

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“A natural order is a stable order. There is no chance that gravity will cease to function tomorrow, even if people stop believing in…

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