I think the basic thing that happened is we have lost our story. Humans think in stories, and we try to make… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
My main ambition as a historian is to figure out what's really happening in the world, instead of the fictions that humans… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Humans think in stories, and we try to make sense of the world by telling stories. — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
The widespread assumption is that somehow, the brain produces the mind; somehow millions of neurons fire signals at one another create or… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
You need to constantly remind yourself what is the most important thing that is happening in the world - what is the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
For thousands of years, we have gained the power to control the world outside us but not to control the world inside.… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
All the major problems of the world today are global in essence, and they cannot be solved unless through some kind of… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
The old 20th-century political model of Left vs. Right is now basically irrelevant, and the real divide today is between global and… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
In the 1990s and 2000s, the liberal story shaped not only the foreign policy of the United States and its allies, but… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
I was taught that if you're going to study something, you must understand it deeply and be familiar with primary sources. But… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
As a historian, I'm sceptical about conspiracy theories because the world is far too complicated to be managed by a few billionaires… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
We control the world basically because we are the only animals that can cooperate flexibly in very large numbers. And if you… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Fundamentally, mankind was unimportant in the ecological system. Then, in one fell swoop, an evolutionary blink of an eye, the human race… — 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
“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
