History-of-mankind Quote by Yuval Noah Harari

“Since large-scale human cooperation is based on myths, the way people cooperate can be altered by changing the myths – by telling different stories.…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The uniquely human ability to collectively believe in myths allows strangers to cooperate.”

— FastReads

“Large numbers of strangers can cooperate successfully by believing in common myths. Any”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The most invidious myth of our civilization is the idea that any form of social contract can substitute for unrelenting moment-to-moment awareness by each…

— Marco Vassi

“[A]nother thing about myths: they gather in and circumscribe their target audience. They make a collection into a collective.”

— Margaret Atwood

“I see folktales and myths as humankind's first stories. They are a kind of collective dreaming, filled with timeless symbols and images we can…

— Marianna Mayer

“How did Homo sapiens manage to cross this critical threshold, eventually founding cities comprising tens of thousands of inhabitants and empires ruling hundreds of…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“It’s in our nature to want to watch our human frailties played out on a huge, epic canvas. Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a…

— Tom Hiddleston

“you cannot organise masses of people effectively without relying on some fictional myths.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The most barbarous and the most fantastic rites and the strangest myths translate some human need, some aspect of life, either individual or social.”

— Émile Durkheim

“Legends and folklores are the memories of ancient civilizations.”

— ninotaziz

“how does one convince millions of people to believe particular stories about gods, or nations, or limited liability companies? Yet when it succeeds, it…

— Yuval Noah Harari