913 Quotes by Yuval Noah Harari

The first universal order to appear was economic: the monetary order. The second universal order was political: the imperial order. The third universal order was religious: the order of universal religions such as Buddhism, Christianity and Islam.

Humans have this remarkable ability to know and not to know at the same time. Or more correctly, they can know something when they really think about it, but most of the time they don't think about it, so they don't know it. If you really focus, you realise that money is fiction. But usually, you don't focus. If you are asked about it, you know that football is a human invention. But in the heat of the match, nobody asks you about it.

Tolerance is not a Sapiens trademark. In modern times, a smalldiʃerence in skin colour, dialect or religion has been enough to prompt one groupof Sapiens to set about exterminating another group.

One of history's iron law is that luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations. Once people get used to a certain luxury, they take it for granted. Then they begin to count on it. Finally they reach a point where they can't live without it.

O algoritmo de pesquisa do Google tem gostos muito sofisticados no que toca a hierarquizar as páginas dos vendedores de gelados, e os vendedores de gelados mais bem-sucedidos do mundo são os que o algoritmo de pesquisa do Google mostra em primeiro lugar – não os que produzem o gelado mais saboroso.

Most sociopolitical hierarchies lack a logical or biological basis - they are nothing but the perpetuation of chance events supported by myths.

The currency of evolution is neither hunger nor pain, but rather copies of DNA helixes

Rather, when famine, plague or war break out of our control, we feel that somebody must have screwed up, we set up a commission of inquiry, and promise ourselves that next time we’ll do better.

Even if you start with a rejection of all religious dogmas and with a firm commitment to scientific truth, sooner or later the complexity of reality becomes so vexing that one is driven to fashion a doctrine that shouldn’t be questioned. While such doctrines provide people with intellectual comfort and moral certainty, it is debatable whether they provide justice