“Modern life consists of a constant pursuit of power within a universe devoid of meaning.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Dataism is gaining a better and better understanding of decision-making processes, but it might be adopting an increasingly skewed view of life.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“On the practical level modern life consists of a constant pursuit of power within a universe devoid of meaning. Modern” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Humanity’s search for an easier life released immense forces of change that transformed the world in ways nobody envisioned or wanted.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Most human-rights activists sincerely believe in the existence of human rights.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Does might make right? Is human life more precious than porcine life simply because the human collective is more powerful than the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Traditionally, life has been divided into two main parts: a period of learning followed by a period of working. Very soon, this… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“In truth, so far modern medicine hasn’t extended our natural life span by a single year. Its great achievement has been to… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“To study history means to watch the spinning and unravelling of these webs, and to realise that what seems to people in… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“In the twentieth century we have almost doubled life expectancy from forty to seventy, so in the twenty-first century we should at… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The third way to change the laws of life is to engineer completely inorganic beings. The most obvious examples are computer programs… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“So perhaps happiness is synchronizing one's personal delusions of meaning with the prevailing collective delusions. As long as my personal narrative is… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Rather than heralding a new era of easy living, the Agricultural Revolution left farmers with lives generally more difficult and less satisfying… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
I titled the book 'Homo Deus' because we really are becoming gods in the most literal sense possible. We are acquiring abilities… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“highly in a subjective well-being questionnaire. So our medieval ancestors were happy because they found meaning to life in collective delusions about… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The scientist who says her life is meaningful because she increases the store of human knowledge, the soldier who declares that his… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
You take fantasies, which for thousands of years belonged to the religious realm - overcoming death or our merging with the universe… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“We identify with the inner system that takes the crazy chaos of life and spins out of it seemingly logical and consistent… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The humanities and social sciences devote most of their energies to explaining exactly how the imagined order is woven into the tapestry… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“We are suddenly showing unprecedented interest in the fate of so-called lower life forms, perhaps because we are about to become one.… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“We aren't born with a ready-made conscience. As we pass through life, we hurt people and people hurt us, we act compassionately… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“It is the life sciences that concluded that organisms are algorithms. If this is not the case – if organisms function in… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Poverty certainly causes many other health problems, and malnutrition shortens life expectancy even in the richest countries on earth. In France, for… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The great political, artistic, and religious project of modernity has been to find a meaning to life that is not rooted in… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“1.Science is converging on an all-encompassing dogma, which says that organisms are algorithms and life is data processing. 2.Intelligence is decoupling from… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The experiment changed Sally’s life. In the following days she realised she has been through a ‘near-spiritual experience…what defined the experience was… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Once people get used to a certain luxury, they take it for granted. Then they begin to count on it. Finally they… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The trap snapped shut. The pursuit of an easier life resulted in much hardship, and not for the last time. It happens… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“If we think in term of months, we had probably focus on immediate problems such as the turmoil in the Middle East,… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“On the practical level modern life consists of a constant pursuit of power within a universe devoid of meaning. Modern culture is… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“(Note the hunched position of the Egyptian farmer who, much like the ox, spent his life in hard labour oppressive to his… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“As Nietzsche put it, if you have a why to live, you can bear almost any how. A meaningful life can be… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“If Marx came back to life today, he would probably urge his few remaining disciples to devote less time to reading Das… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“1. Are organisms really just algorithms, and is life really just data processing? 2. What’s more valuable – intelligence or consciousness? 3.… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“If pupils suffer from attention disorders, stress and low grades, perhaps we ought to blame outdated teaching methods, overcrowded classrooms and an… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“A meaningful life can be extremely satisfying even in the midst of hardship, whereas a meaningless life is a terrible ordeal no… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“In order to provide every person in the world with the same standard of living as affluent Americans, we would need a… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
In Judaism or Christianity and so forth, you invent rules that don't exist anywhere except in your imagination. You spend your life… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“This completely changed their way of life. We did not domesticate wheat. It domesticated us. The word ‘domesticate’ comes from the Latin… — 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
