Quote by Yuval Noah Harari Download Open image ““The narrating self doesn't aggregate experiences – it averages them.”” — Yuval Noah Harari ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“The self is simply this subject; it is the story we tell ourselves about our experiences.” — Lehrer Jonah Copy Share Image
“there are very few of us that do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or other, real or… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Every fragment of self-talk is a little story in the head that goes around, and then you look at reality through the lens of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Reality exists only through experience, and it must be personal experience. However, once related, even personal experience becomes a narrative.” — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
“When we say ‘I’, we mean the story in our head, not the onrushing stream of experiences we undergo.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“For the fiction writer himself the whole story is the meaning, because it is an experience, not an abstraction.” — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“The writer ultimately tires of the subject's self-serving story, and substitutes a story of his own.” — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
“Experience is something you have to go through yourself to be able to fully described the act.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“Just because I'm a writer doesn't mean that my personal experiences are embellished. Every life has a story.” — Terry a O'Neal 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
