Quote by Yuval Noah Harari Download Open image ““Fictions enable us to cooperate better.”” — Yuval Noah Harari ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“we accept fictions as fictions, as things that might be true in their world, if not quite in ours.” — Thomas C. Foster Copy Share Image
“Sometimes fiction is a way of coping with the poison of the world in a way that lets us survive it.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Fiction allows you to go deeper into the truth. You can put anything down and you can take chances.” — Peter Matthieson Copy Share Image
“Only fiction has the power to cross the mental barricades, to make strangers intelligible to each other, because it moves people's hearts as well… — Ian Leslie Copy Share Image
“We're in a strange relationship with our fiction, you see. Sometimes we fear it's taking us over, sometimes we beg to be taken over… — Warren Ellis Planetary Vol. 2 The Fourth Man Copy Share Image
“Fiction has to be well researched, properly conceived and logically presented. Reality needs none of the above.” — Manoj Vaz 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
