Yuval Noah Harari

“Some societies tried to solve the problem by establishing a central barter system that collected products from specialist growers and manufacturers and…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Many dairy cows live almost all their allotted years inside a small enclosure; standing, sitting and sleeping in their own urine and…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Confucius, Buddha, Jesus and Muhammed would have been bewildered if you'd told them that in order to understand the human mind and…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“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

“to eat and drink in moderation, and to curb one’s sexual appetites. In the long run, a deep friendship will make us…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“This is no kindergarten fairy tale, but an extremely powerful myth that continues to shape the lives of billions of humans and…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“European imperialism was entirely unlike all other imperial projects in history. Previous seekers of empire tended to assume that they already understood…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“If I look really deep within myself, the seeming unity that I take for granted dissolves into a cacophony of conflicting voices,…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“There is only one historical development that has real significance. Today, when we finally realise that the keys to happiness are in…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“What Rwanda earned from an entire year of looting Congolese coltan, the Chinese earn in a single day of peaceful commerce.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Technological progress has a very different agenda. It doesn’t want to listen to our inner voices. It wants to control them.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“For example, the megafauna of New Zealand – which had weathered the alleged ‘climate change’ of c.45,000 years ago without a scratch…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The late modern era has seen unprecedented levels not only of violence and horror, but also of peace and tranquillity. Charles Dickens…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“In the twenty-first century fiction might thereby become the most potent force on earth, surpassing even wayward asteroids and natural selection.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“brain, simultaneously transmitting signals that the brain can read in turn. What if such interfaces are used to directly link a brain…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“replication of cultural information units called ‘memes’.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The individual will not be crushed by Big Brother; it will disintegrate from within.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The same tools that enable doctors to quickly identify and cure new illnesses may also enable armies and terrorists to engineer even…

— Yuval Noah Harari

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— Yuval Noah Harari

“The mental renovations of the first Cognitive Revolution gave Homo sapiens access to the intersubjective realm and turned them into the rulers…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Rather, happiness consists in seeing one’s life in its entirety as meaningful and worthwhile. There is an important cognitive and ethical component…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“However, only rarely do scientists dictate the scientific agenda.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Most sociopolitical hierarchies lack a logical or biological basis – they are nothing but the perpetuation of chance events supported by myths.…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The likelihood that computer algorithms will displace archaeologists by 2033 is only 0.7 per cent, because their job requires highly sophisticated types…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“In the second half of the twentieth century humankind almost obliterated itself in an argument about production methods.”

— Yuval Noah Harari