“Leave science out of it and live in accordance with a non-scientific absolute truth. This has been the strategy of liberal humanism,… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Scientists usually assume that no theory is 100 per cent correct. Consequently, truth is a poor test for knowledge. The real test… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“as collective institutions, science and religion prefer order and power over truth.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“We always believe in ‘the truth’; only other people believe in superstitions.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The scientific project starts by rejecting the fantasy of infallibility and proceeding to construct an information network that takes error to be… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“It’s ironic that they swear to tell the truth on a book brimming with so many fictions, myths and errors.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“witnesses in courts put their hand on a Bible when swearing to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Similarly in many countries around the world, including the USA and the UK, witnesses in courts put their hand on a bible… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The truth hardly matters. What's written on your form is far more important.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The sad truth is that nobody knows where all the power has gone. Power will definitely not shift back to ordinary voters… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The truth is that from about 2 million years ago until around 10,000 years ago, the world was home, at one and… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The truth is that from about 2 million years ago until around 10,000 years ago, the world was home, at one and… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“In truth, so far modern medicine hasn’t extended our natural life span by a single year. Its great achievement has been to… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Monotheists have tended to be far more fanatical and missionary than polytheists. A religion that recognises the legitimacy of other faiths implies… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Anyone who has ever dealt with the tax authorities, the educational system or any other complex bureaucracy knows that the truth hardly… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
We are living in a global world - but most schools and books still tell us only parochial histories of one particular… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“We want to believe that our lives have some objective meaning, and that our sacrifices matter to something beyond the stories in… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“In truth, neither the narrative of oppression and exploitation nor that of ‘the White Man’s burden’ completely matches the facts. The European… — 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
“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
