History Quote by 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

“I wonder how they convince their conscience believing in myths and fallacious stories.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

Create your own myths; that is how the gods got started.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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

— Yuval Noah Harari

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

— FastReads

“Gods become myths when people stop believin’ in them.”

— Peter Murphy

“People don't believe in gods because they can't wrap their minds around the idea of someone allowing all the terrible things in the world…

— Kaitlin Bevis

“If you want to make people believe in imaginary entities such as gods and nations, you should make them sacrifice something valuable.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Even when he turns from religion, man remains subject to it; depleting himself to create false gods, he then feverishly adopts them; his need…

— Emil Cioran

“If our polls are to be trusted, nearly 230 million Americans believe that a book showing neither unity of style nor internal consistency was…

— Sam Harris

“There's always someone who secretly believes in myths and legends; or at least parts of them. Those are the people who will look beyond…

— Aprilynne Pike

“Myth is truth which is subjective, intuitive, cultural and grounded in faith.”

— Devdutt Pattanaik