Yuval Noah Harari Quotes
"Questions you cannot answer are usually far better for you than answers you cannot question""Happiness begins within""You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him bananas after death in monkey heaven""Science is not just about studying the world. It’s about changing it""People are always far more interested in themselves than in anyone else. Your book will most probably interest them if it helps them see themselves in a new light""We control the world basically because we can cooperate better than any other animal""Fiction isn’t bad. It is vital. Without commonly accepted stories about things like money, states or corporations, no complex human society can function""Fiction has enabled us not merely to imagine things, but to do so collectively""Money is the most universal and most efficient system of mutual trust ever devised""You can never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven""Religion can bring stability and order to a country, but it can also drive them into explosive conflict""How do you cause people to believe in an imagined order such as Christianity, democracy or capitalism? First, you never admit that the order is imagined""Ever since the Cognitive Revolution, sapiens have thus been living in a dual reality. On the one hand, the objective reality of rivers, trees, and lions; and on the other hand, the imagined reality of gods, nations, and corporations.""The human capacity for cooperation has been the key to our success.""Happiness does not really depend on objective conditions of wealth, health, or even community. Rather, it depends on the correlation between objective conditions and subjective expectations.""For the first time in history, more people die today from eating too much than from eating too little.""Capitalism has not been a single coherent economic theory. It is instead a loose collection of doctrines and courses of action.""One of history’s few iron laws is that luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations.""We did not domesticate wheat. It domesticated us.""Homo sapiens is the only species on Earth capable of imagining things that do not really exist."