Life Quotes by Yuval Noah Harari

“Most human-rights activists sincerely believe in the existence of human rights.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“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

“On the practical level modern life consists of a constant pursuit of power within a universe devoid of meaning. Modern”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“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

“Modern life consists of a constant pursuit of power within a universe devoid of meaning.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“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

“it is hard to see how they can hold back the next step for long, especially if what is at stake is…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The supreme value of this new religion is ‘information flow’. If life is the movement of information, and if we think that…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“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

“We want to believe that our lives have some objective meaning, and that our sacrifices matter to something beyond the stories in…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“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

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

“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

“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

“The history of science is replete with abandoned concepts and theories. For instance, early modern scientists who tried to account for the…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“However, over the last few decades the life sciences have reached the conclusion that this liberal story is pure mythology. The single…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Rather, happiness consists in seeing one’s life in its entirety as meaningful and worthwhile. There is an important cognitive and ethical component…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“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

“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

“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

“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

You take fantasies, which for thousands of years belonged to the religious realm - overcoming death or our merging with the universe…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“1. Science is converging on an all-encompassing dogma, which says that organisms are algorithms, and life is data processing. 2. Intelligence is…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Two lawyers who have never met can nevertheless combine efforts to defend a complete stranger because they both believe in the existence…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Increasingly, our decisions will be made by the algorithms that surround us. Whenever there is a big dilemma, you just ask Google…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Many people in their teens wonder about these big questions - what's the meaning of life, what are we doing here -…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

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