“It’s a puzzle why we binge on the sweetest and greasiest food we can find, until we consider the eating habits of… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“alongside seas and rivers rich in seafood and waterfowl, humans set up permanent fishing villages – the first permanent settlements in history,… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“If happiness is determined by expectations, then two pillars of our society – mass media and the advertising industry – may unwittingly… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Was the late Neil Armstrong, whose footprint remains intact on the windless moon, happier than the nameless hunter-gatherer who 30,000 years ago… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Seventy thousand years ago, Homo sapiens was still an insignificant animal minding its own business in a corner of Africa. In the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Why do modern humans love sweets so much? Not because in the early twenty-first century we must gorge on ice cream and… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Three important revolutions shaped the course of history: the Cognitive Revolution kick-started history about 70,000 years ago. The Agricultural Revolution sped it… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
When the first humans reached Australia about 45,000 years ago, they quickly drove to extinction 90% of its large animals. This was… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“After 1908, and especially after 1945, capitalist greed was somewhat reined in, not least due to the fear of Communism. Yet inequities… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
About 15,000 years ago, humans colonised America, wiping out in the process about 75% of its large mammals. Numerous other species disappeared… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Homo sapiens, you and me, we are basically the same as people 10,000 years ago. The next revolution will change that. — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“I still remember the day I first came across the Internet. It was back in 1993, when I was in high school.… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Thus humans who lived a million years ago, despite their big brains and sharp stone tools, dwelt in constant fear of predators,… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“True, hundreds of millions may nevertheless go on believing in Islam, Christianity or Hinduism. But numbers alone don’t count for much in… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“but we have incontrovertible evidence of domesticated dogs from about 15,000 years ago. They may have joined the human pack thousands of… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“economic pie of 2014 is far larger than the pie of 1500, but it is distributed so unevenly that many African peasants… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Fishing villages might have appeared on the coasts of Indonesian islands as early as 45,000 years ago. These may have been the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“politicians.’ It is much easier to live with the fantasy, because the fantasy gives meaning to the suffering. Priests discovered this principle… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Just 6 million years ago, a single female ape had two daughters. One became the acestor of all chimpanzees, the other is… — 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
“About 13.5 billion years ago, matter, energy, time and space came into being in what is known as the Big Bang. The… — 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
“Indeed, 5,000 years ago much of Sumer was owned by imaginary gods such as Enki and Inanna. If gods can possess land… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Whether Sapiens are to blame or not, no sooner had they arrived at a new location than the native population became extinct.… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Socialism, which was very up to date a hundred years ago, failed to keep up with the new technology. [...] If Marx… — 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
