Quotes from Yuval Noah Harari

Yet what people might really need are the tools to connect to their own experiences.

These logistical advances played a more significant role in the European conquest of Africa than did the machine gun.

Una característica de los regímenes iliberales es que dificultan más la libertad de expresión incluso fuera de sus fronteras.

It takes a lot of courage to fight biases and oppressive regimes, but it takes even greater courage to admit ignorance and venture into the unknown. Secular education teaches us that if we don't know something, we shouldn't be afraid of acknowledging our ignorance and looking for new evidence.

Until the late modern era, more than 90 per cent of humans were peasants who rose each morning to till the land by the sweat of their brows. The extra they produced fed the tiny minority of elites – kings, government officials, soldiers, priests, artists and thinkers – who fill the history books. History is something that very few people have been doing while everyone else was ploughing fields and carrying water buckets. An

Daca vrei sa-i determini pe oameni sa creada in enitati imaginare precum zeii si natiunile, ar trebui sa-i faci sa sacrifice ceva de pret.

According to Chinese philosophy, the world is sustained by the interplay of opposing but complementary forces called yin and yang.

What's undeniable is that monotheists have a hard time dealing with the Problem of Evil.

A human handprint made about 30,000 years ago, on the wall of the Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave in southern France. Somebody tried to say, 'I was here!

A person who does not crave cannot suffer. According

The militarily incompetent Augustus succeeded in establishing a stable imperial regime, achieving something that eluded both Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great, who were much better generals. Both his admiring contemporaries and modern historians often attribute this feat to his virtue of clementia – mildness and clemency.

When a Sapiens band first entered a valley inhabited by Neanderthals, the following years might have witnessed a breathtaking historical drama.

Rather, it was written by tying knots on colourful cords called quipus. Each quipu consisted of many cords of different colours, made of wool or cotton. On each cord, several knots were tied in different places. A single quipu could contain hundreds of cords and thousands of knots. By combining different knots on different cords with different colours, it was possible to record large amounts of mathematical data relating to, for example, tax collection and property ownership.2

Los santos cristianos no solo se parecían a los antiguos dioses politeístas, sino que a menudo eran los mismos dioses disfrazados. Por ejemplo, la diosa principal de la Irlanda céltica anterior a la llegada del cristianismo era Brígida. Cuando Irlanda fue cristianizada, Brígida fue asimismo bautizada, convirtiéndose en santa Brígida, la santa más venerada en la Irlanda católica hasta la actualidad.

the name of "sharing experiences," people are encouraged to understand what happens to them in terms of how others see it.

The Knowledge Illusion: We think we know a lot even though individually we know very little because we treat knowledge in the mind of others as if it were our own.

In order to keep up with the world of 2050, you will need not merely to invent new ideas and products - you will above all need to reinvent yourself again and again.

The ability to navigate is like a muscle—use it or lose it.14 The same is true for the ability to choose spouses or professions.

El consumismo y el nacionalismo hacen horas extras para hacernos imaginar que millones de extraños pertenecen a la misma comunidad que nosotros, que todos tenemos un pasado común, intereses comunes y un futuro común. Esto no es una mentira. Es imaginación. Al

We no longer search for information. Instead, we google.

Puesto que pronto podremos manipular también nuestros deseos, quizá la pregunta real a la que nos enfrentamos no sea «¿En qué deseamos convertirnos?», sino «¿Qué queremos desear?». Aquellos que no se espanten ante esta pregunta es que probablemente no han pensado lo suficiente en ella.

Se você quiser manter qualquer grupo humano isolado – mulheres, judeus, ciganos, gays, negros –, a melhor forma é convencer todos de que essas pessoas são fonte de contaminação.

Today in Nepal, devotees of the goddess Gadhimai celebrate her festival every five years in the village of Bariyapur. A record was set in 2009 when 250,000 animals were sacrificed to the goddess. A local driver explained to a visiting British journalist that 'If we want anything, and we come here with an offering to the goddess, within five years all our dreams will be fulfilled.'26

Humanity has very little time left to wean itself from fossil fuels.