“For similar reasons, archaic humans did not initiate any revolutions. As far as we can tell, changes in social patterns, the invention… — 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… — 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… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Cultural ideas live inside the minds of humans. They multiply and spread from one host to another, occasionally weakening the hosts and… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“All large-scale human cooperation is ultimately based on our belief in imagined orders. These are sets of rules that, despite existing only… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Humanity seems doomed. But at the very last moment, against all odds, humanity triumphs thanks to something that the aliens, the” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“It is easy for us to accept that the division of people into ‘superiors’ and ‘commoners’ is a figment of the imagination.… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Humans are the outcome of blind evolutionary processes that operate without goal or purpose. Our actions are not part of some divine… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Of all human collective activities, the one most difficult to organise is violence.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Humans are extremely good in acquiring new power, but they are not very good in translating this power into greater happiness, which… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The problem at the root of such calamities is that humans evolved for millions of years in small bands of a few… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The crucial problem is creating new jobs that humans perform better than algorithms.20” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Humans nowadays completely dominate the planet not because the individual human is far smarter and more nimble-fingered than the individual chimp or… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The yardsticks that we ourselves have enshrined will condemn us to join the mammoths and Chinese river dolphins in oblivion. Looking back,… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Humans think in stories, and we try to make sense of the world by telling stories. — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it is also wrong to consider only the happiness of humans.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Theist religions focus on the worship of gods. Humanist religions worship humanity, or more correctly, Homo sapiens. Humanism is a belief that… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“But humans do such things all the time. Because the Sapiens social order is imagined, humans cannot preserve the critical information for… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Humans are relinquishing authority to the free market, to crowd wisdom and to external algorithms partly because we cannot deal with the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Dataism adopts a strictly functional approach to humanity, appraising the value of human experiences according to their function in data-processing mechanisms.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The most important impact of script on human history is precisely this: it has gradually changed the way humans think and view… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Just as there is no barrier between humans and other beings, neither is there a strict hierarchy. Non-human entities do not exist… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Simultaneously, scientists have studied the mental states of people considered to be healthy and normative. However, most relevant researches have been conducted… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“We are more powerful than ever before, but have very little idea what to do with all that power. Worse still, humans… — 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
