“other words, while the behaviour patterns of archaic humans remained fixed for tens of thousands of years, Sapiens could transform their social… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“In pursuit of health, happiness and power, humans will gradually change first one of their features and then another, and another, until… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Techno-humanism aims to amplify the power of humans, creating cyborgs and connecting humans to computers, but it still sees human interests and… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“humans may be unable to do so. The coming technological bonanza will probably make it feasible to feed and support these useless… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
The truly unique trait of 'Sapiens' is our ability to create and believe fiction. All other animals use their communication system to… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The average person lived many months without seeing or hearing a human from outside of her own band, and she encountered throughout… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Yet the idea that all humans are equal is also a myth. In what sense do all humans equal one another?” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“an even deeper level of human consciousness. Such vicious circles can go on for centuries and even millennia, perpetuating an imagined hierarchy… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Since large-scale human cooperation is based on myths, the way people cooperate can be altered by changing the myths – by telling… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“the crucial factor in our conquest of the world was our ability to connect many humans to one another.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“For thousands of years priests, rabbis and muftis explained that humans cannot overcome famine, plague and war by their own efforts. Then… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“in the not-so-distant future we might again have to contend with non-sapiens humans.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Our late modern world prides itself on recognising, for the first time in history, the basic equality of all humans, yet it… — 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
For thousands of years, until about 1850, you see humans accumulating more and more power by the invention of new technologies and… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The algorithms controlling humans work through sensations, emotions and thoughts.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The short answer is that humans created imagined orders and devised scripts. These two inventions filled the gaps left by our biological… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Like money, limited liability companies and human rights, nations and consumer tribes are inter-subjective realities. They exist only in our collective imagination,… — 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
“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 Copy Share Image
“threats and promises often succeed in creating stable human hierarchies and mass-cooperation networks, as long as people believe that they reflect the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“From an evolutionary perspective, the closest thing we have to a human essence is our DNA, and the DNA molecule is the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Throughout this book we have repeatedly asked what makes humans superior to other animals. Dataism has a new and simple answer. In… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Some economists predict that sooner or later, unenhanced humans will be completely useless.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Moreover, despite the astonishing things that humans are capable of doing, we remain unsure of our goals and we seem to be… — 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
