913 Quotes by Yuval Noah Harari

O compromisso secular mais importante é para com a verdade que se baseia em observações e em provas e não apenas na fé. Os secularistas procuram não confundir verdade com crença. Se temos uma crença muito forte numa determinada história, isso pode revelar muitas coisas interessantes sobre a nossa psicologia, a nossa infância e a nossa estrutura cerebral – mas isso não prova que a história seja verdadeira.

Whenever politicians start talking in mystical terms, beware. They might be trying to disguise and excuse real suffering by wrapping it up in big incomprehensible words. Be particularly careful about the following four words: sacrifice, eternity, purity, redemption. If you hear any of these, sound the alarm. And if you happen to live in a country whose leader routinely says things like ‘Their sacrifice will redeem the purity of our eternal nation’ – know that you are in deep trouble.

today the vast majority of human communication – whether in the form of emails, phone calls or newspaper columns – is gossip. It comes so naturally to us that it seems as if our language evolved for this very purpose || Gossip usually focuses on wrongdoings. Rumour-mongers are the original fourth estate, journalists who inform society about and thus protect it from cheats and freeloaders.

El análisis que la CIA efectuó en Vietnam y Chile en la década de 1960 dividió a la sociedad en clases.

Para comprender todo esto debemos retroceder e investigar quién es realmente Homo Sapiens, cómo el humanismo se convirtió en la religión dominante en el mundo y por qué es probable que intentar cumplir el sueño humanista cause su desintegración.

Pendant la majeure partie de l’histoire, les mathématiques ont été un domaine ésotérique que même les gens instruits étudiaient rarement. Dans l’Europe médiévale, la logique, la grammaire et la rhétorique formaient le noyau dur de l’éducation, tandis que l’enseignement des mathématiques allait rarement au delà de l’arithmétique élémentaire et de la géométrie. Personne n’étudiait les statistiques. La théologie était la reine incontestée de toutes les sciences.

No existe una sola evidencia científica de que, en contraste con los cerdos, los sapiens posean alma.

Sapiens, in contrast, live in triple-layered reality. In addition to trees, rivers, fears and desires, the Sapiens world also contains stories about money, gods, nations and corporations.

Sapiens instinctively divide humanity into two parts, ‘we’ and ‘they’. We are people like you and me, who share our language, religion and customs. We are all responsible for each other, but not responsible for them. We were always distinct from them, and owe them nothing. We don’t want to see any of them in our territory, and we don’t care an iota what happens in their territory. They are barely even human.