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Yuval Noah Harari Quotes

"Humans were always far better at inventing tools than using them wisely""Knowledge that does not change behavior is useless""Ignorance is always preferable to delusion""The most important question in the 21st century is not what do we want to become, but what do we want to want""Morality doesn't mean 'following divine orders'. It means reducing suffering""Change is the only constant""People are usually afraid of change because they fear the unknown But the single greatest constant of history is that everything changes""What is true about individual dreams is also true about collective myths""Our ability to create virtual realities imbued with meaning has made us the masters of creation""In a world in which everything is interconnected, the supreme moral imperative becomes the imperative to know""The future belongs to those who can reinterpret our past""Humans are willing to do many things, but the difficulty is putting them on the right path""The most valuable resource in the modern economy is attention""The romantic contrast between modern industry that destroys nature and our forefathers who lived in harmony with nature is groundless""Culture tends to argue that it forbids only that which is unnatural. But from a biological perspective, nothing is unnatural. Whatever is possible is by definition also natural. A truly unnatural behavior, one that goes against the laws of nature, simply cannot exist""Looking back, it is not so surprising that humanity has remade itself so completely so quickly considering that it has always been an experimental animal""Homo sapiens does its best to forget the fact, but it is an animal""In a world deluged by irrelevant information, clarity is power""The supreme commandment of the rich is 'Invest! The supreme commandment of the rest of us is 'Buy!""Stories are a way to give meaning to life. Without stories, life would be nothing more than a series of disconnected events"
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