Money Quote by Yuval Noah Harari

Now there are no priests or philosophers left, artists are the most important people in the world.

— Anonymous

Now that we do not have priests and philosophers any more, artists are the most important people in the world.

— Gerhard Richter

If cathedrals had been universities If dungeons of the Inquisition had been laboratories If Christians had believed in character instead of creed If they…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“The first to overcome the problem were the ancient Sumerians, who lived in southern Mesopotamia. There, a scorching sun beating upon rich muddy plains…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“THE LAST 500 YEARS HAVE WITNESSED A breathtaking series of revolutions. The earth has been united into a single ecological and historical sphere. The…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“This is an existential threat to the social and economic order, which is why countries wage a stubborn, bloody and hopeless war on biochemical…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“A conscious effort has to be made to sustain laws, customs, procedures and manners, otherwise the social order would quickly collapse.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“like the social instincts of chimps, those of humans were adapted only for small intimate groups. When the group grew too large, its social…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“But humans do such things all the time. Because the Sapiens social order is imagined, humans cannot preserve the critical information for running it…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“As the number of inhabitants grew, so did the amount of information required to coordinate their affairs. Between the years 3500 BC and 3000…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“In Shivaite tradition, the god's companions are described as a troupe of freakish, adventurous, delinquent and wild young people, who prowl in the night,…

— Alain Daniélou

When women gain access to higher education and then suddenly start doing better at it than the men, that can really throw the prevailing…

— Hanna Rosin