Human consciousness Quote by Yuval Noah Harari

“Yet it is an iron rule of history that every imagined hierarchy disavows its fictional origins and claims to be natural and inevitable.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Some topics seem to be nothing but philosophical circles designed to lure the unsuspecting ant to its death.”

— D.E. Navarro

“we are here confronted with an irreducible oddity about all human societies: all are strung around figments of the human imagination.”

— Patricia Crone

“The institutions, conventions, customs and laws that make up the complex structure of a society are the work of a hundred centuries and a…

— Will Durant

“For over twenty-five centuries we’ve been bearing the weight of superb and heterogeneous civilizations, all from outside, none made by ourselves, none that we…

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

“If we make a fly-on-the-wall review of our history and connect the significant scenarios from our memory, we can develop a comprehensive pattern of…

— Erik Pevernagie

“In these days, when all things and memories of the past are at length become not only subservient to, but submerged by, the matters…

— Ptahhotep

“It’s now widely agreed in progressive social circles that all humankind constitutes a single superorganism.”

— William T. Vollmann

“One tries to get to the bottom of things, but it's all just a running around in circles. History is absurd, events escape the…

— Jacob G Rosenberg

“In every culture we imagined something like our own political system running the Universe Few found the similarity suspicious.”

— Carl Sagan

“It was civilization itself which inflicted this wound upon modern man. Once the increase of empirical knowledge, and more exact modes of thought, made…

— Friedrich von Schiller

“We are sitting on top of a vast cultural and historical pyramid of accumulated misconceptions, lies and myths, built one on top of the…

— Bryant McGill