“a typical family possessed more artefacts than an entire forager” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The collapse of the family and the local community and their replacement by the state and the market.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Amazingly, the algorithm needed a set of only ten Likes in order to outperform the predictions of work colleagues. It needed seventy… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“rows. The resulting artificial habitat was meant only for humans and ‘their’ plants and animals, and was often fenced off by walls… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Homo sapiens is a social being, and our well-being depends to a large extent on the quality and depth of our social… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Family and community seem to have more impact on our happiness than money and health. People with strong families who live in… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Family and community seem to have more impact on our happiness than money and health. People with strong families who live in… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“raises the possibility that the immense improvement in material conditions over the last two centuries was offset by the collapse of the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Whereas traditionally the family was the main matchmaker, today it’s the market that tailors our romantic and sexual preferences, and then lends… — 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 particular nations as the engines of human progress, and concluded that these nations ought to bludgeon or even exterminate anyone standing in their way. It should be remembered, though, that Hitler and the Nazis represent only… — 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 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, live inside the body of their hosts. They multiply and spread from one host to the other, feeding off their hosts, weakening them, and sometimes even killing them. As long as the hosts live long enough… — 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 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
