“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
“Moreover, most faiths turned death into the main source of meaning in life. Try to imagine Islam, Christianity or the ancient Egyptian… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Just as divine authority was legitimised by religious mythologies and human authority was legitimised by humanist ideologies, so high-tech gurus and Silicon… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“These new techno-religions can be divided into two main types: techno-humanism and data religion” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Hence a bolder techno-religion seeks to sever the humanist umbilical cord altogether. It foresees a world that does not revolve around the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
If you think about the great religions that have united large parts of humankind, people believe gods are very concrete - there… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Yet in practice, science and religion are like a husband and wife who after 500 years of marriage counselling still don’t know… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“religion asks us to believe in something, money asks us to believe that other people believe in something.” — 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
“Data religion now says that your every word and action is part of the great data flow, that the algorithms are constantly… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Osama Bin Laden, for all his hatred of American culture, American religion and American politics, was very fond of American dollars.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“We often associate science with the values of secularism and tolerance. If so, early modern Europe is the last place you would… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The modern age has witnessed the rise of a number of new natural-law religions, such as liberalism, Communism, capitalism, nationalism and Nazism.… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“rise of a number of new natural-law religions, such as liberalism, Communism, capitalism, nationalism and Nazism. These” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“We normally think that theist religions sanctified the great gods. We tend to forget that they sanctified humans, too. Hitherto Homo sapiens… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Sapiens instinctively divide humanity into two parts, ‘we’ and ‘they’. We are people like you and me, who share our language, religion… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Data religion now says that your every word and action is part of the great data flow, that the algorithms are constantly… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“we have only the haziest notions about the religions of ancient foragers. We assume that they were animists, but that’s not very… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Religion is interested above all in order. It aims to create and maintain the social structure. Science is interested above all in… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Similarly, the fact that another person believes in cowry shells, or dollars, or electronic data, is enough to strengthen our own belief… — 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
