Quote by Yuval Noah Harari

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

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Any large-scale human cooperation - whether a modern state, a medieval church, an ancient city or an archaic tribe - is rooted in common…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“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

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

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“Under the right circumstances myths can change rapidly. In 1789 the French population switched almost overnight from believing in the myth of the divine…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“fiction has enabled us not merely to imagine things, but to do so collectively. We can weave common myths such as the biblical creation…

— 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

“Only Homo sapiens can discuss things that are not tangible, such as fantasies, legends, myths, deities, and religions. The ability to talk about fiction…

— Read trepreneur

“The city is built on an inhuman scale. Everything is by design inconvenient for Homo sapiens.”

— Andrew Meier

“The city had been built by people from innumerable elsewheres. It was a chaos of cultures ordered only by its long streets. It belonged…

— André Alexis

“As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the…

— Plutarch

They lived in a great city, a metropolis of many narratives that converged briefly and then separated for ever, discovering their different dooms in…

— Salman Rushdie