Quote by Yuval Noah Harari Download Open image ““Monotheists have tended to be far more fanatical and missionary than polytheists.”” — Yuval Noah Harari ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“We have no historical testimony to the development of polytheism into pure monotheism;” — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“Animists thought that humans were just one of many creatures inhabiting the world. Polytheists, on the other hand, increasingly saw the world as a… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“This is the world of polytheism: it knows no overall truth and order, only fragments and limited connections in the shambles of time and… — Rousas John Rushdoony Copy Share Image
“Most people grow out of this infantile delusion. Monotheists hold on to it till the day they die.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“It is a distinction, instead, between two entirely different kinds of reality, belonging to two entirely disparate conceptual orders. In fact, the very division… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
One would think that people who insist on being monotheistic would be the first in line to walk across the artificial boundaries created by… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“To abandon the idea of separation from and submission to God has always been feared as a threat to morals, but there is absolutely… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
“For my purposes, the differences among animistic, pantheistic, and monotheistic religions can be ascribed to differences in the content of beliefs in the supernatural,… — Scott Atran Copy Share Image
We are pantheists when we study nature, polytheists when we write poetry, monotheists in our morality. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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
