41 Quotes About Sapiens

People easily understand that 'primitives' cement their social order by believing in ghosts and spirits, and gathering each full moon to dance together around the campfire. What we fail to appreciate is that our modern institutions function on exactly the same basis. Take for example the world of business corporations, Modern business-people and lawyers are, in fact, powerful sorcerers. The principal difference between them and tribal shamans is that modern lawyers tell far stranger tales.

As a species, wise, harmonious progress is our mission.

Sapiens means wise or sapient... Wise means acceptance, not differentiation. Wise means helping, not fighting. Wise means assimilation, not destruction. Wise means harmony and peace, not dissension.

The Agricultural Revolution was history's biggest fraud. Who was responsible? Neither kings, nor priests, nor merchants. The culprits were a handful of plant species, including wheat, rice and potatoes. These plants domesticated Homo Sapiens, rather than vice versa.

there is no God, but don't tell that to my servant, lest he murder me at night

the truly unique feature of our language is not its ability to transmitinformation about men and lions. Rather, it’s the ability to transmit informationabout things that do not exist at all. As far as we know, only Sapiens can talkabout entire kinds of entities that they have never seen, touched or smelled.

Since the dawn of civilization, Homo sapiens has become a self-programmable species.

Civilization lies in the mind, not in attire or books.

Unfortunately, the Sapiens regime on Earth has so far produced little that we can be proud of. We have mastered our surroundings, increased food production, built cities, established empires and created far-flung trade networks. But did we decrease the amount of suffering in the world?