“success of our species went hand in hand with much individual suffering.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it by not dying.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Alas, domesticated species paid for their unparalleled collective success with unprecedented individual suffering.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“a dramatic increase in the collective power and ostensible success of our species went hand in hand with much individual suffering.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“we can congratulate ourselves on the unprecedented accomplishments of modern Sapiens only if we completely ignore the fate of all other animals.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“From a narrow evolutionary perspective, which measures success by the number of DNA copies, the Agricultural Revolution was a wonderful boon for… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
The domesticated chicken is probably the most widespread bird in the annals of planet Earth. If you measure success in terms of… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Money is the probably the most successful story ever told. It has no objective value... but then you have these master storytellers:… — 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
“Though historians occasionally try their hand at prophecy (without notable success), the study of history aims above all to make us aware… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Success breeds ambition, and our recent achievements are now pushing humankind to set itself even more daring goals. Having secured unprecedented levels… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“In the twentieth century per capita GDP was perhaps the supreme yardstick for evaluating national success. From this perspective, Singapore, each of… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“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
“Consequently, in 1958 the Chinese government was informed that annual grain production was 50 per cent more than it actually was. Believing… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Countries measured their success by the size of their territory, the increase in their population and the growth of their GDP –… — 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
