“The most common reaction of the human mind to achievement is not satisfaction, but craving for more. Humans are always on the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“In the nineteenth century, scientists described brains and minds as if they were steam engines. Why steam engines? Because that was the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Consumerism has worked very hard, with the help of popular psychology (‘Just do it!’) to convince people that indulgence is good for… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Our bodies and minds evolved and were adapted for hundreds of thousands of years for tasks like climbing a tree and picking… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Humans are rarely satisfied with what they already have. The most common reaction of the human mind to achievement is not satisfaction,… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The settlers of Australia, or more accurately, its conquerors, didn’t just adapt, they transformed the Australian ecosystem beyond recognition.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Confucius, Buddha, Jesus and Muhammed would have been bewildered if you'd told them that in order to understand the human mind and… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The mental renovations of the first Cognitive Revolution gave Homo sapiens access to the intersubjective realm and turned them into the rulers… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“When thousands of cars slowly edge their way through London, we call that a traffic jam, but it doesn’t create some great… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“In all probability there is an infinite variety of mental states that no Sapiens, bat or dinosaur ever experienced in 4 billion… — 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
