“We take this reality for granted, thinking it is natural, inevitable and immutable. We forget that our world was created by an… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Peasants were worried about the future not just because they had more cause for worry, but also because they could do something… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“A large part of our artistic creativity, our political commitment and our religious piety is fuelled by the fear of death.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“After 1908, and especially after 1945, capitalist greed was somewhat reined in, not least due to the fear of Communism. Yet inequities… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Woody Allen, who has made a fabulous career out of the fear of death, was once asked if he hoped to live… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Modern humanity is sick with FOMO – Fear Of Missing Out – and though we have more choice than ever before, we… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Sapiens, in contrast, live in triple-layered reality. In addition to trees, rivers, fears and desires, the Sapiens world also contains stories about… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Thus humans who lived a million years ago, despite their big brains and sharp stone tools, dwelt in constant fear of predators,… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The Galapagos Islands, to give one famous example, remained uninhabited by humans until the nineteenth century, thus preserving their unique menagerie, including… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The fly is so weak that it cannot budge even a single teacup. So it finds a bull, gets inside its ear… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“If the entire system works by electric signals passing from here to there, why the hell do we also need to feel… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Woody Allen, who has made a fabulous career out of the fear of death, was once asked if he hoped to live… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“After 1908, and especially after 1945, capitalist greed was somewhat reined in, not least due to the fear of Communism. Yet inequities… — 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
