Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind — Quotes
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Author: Yuval Noah Harari Source: Goodreads
39 quotes, one page each — split at import because this page carried more quoted words than the wiki publishes on a single page.
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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- “You could never convince a monkey to give…”
- “How do you cause people to believe in…”
- “Culture tends to argue that it forbids only…”
- “One of history’s few iron laws is that…”
- “How many young college graduates have taken demanding…”
- “Consistency is the playground of dull minds…”
- “History is something that very few people have…”
- “Biology enables, Culture forbids…”
- “We did not domesticate wheat. It domesticated us…”
- “Money is the most universal and most efficient…”
- “This is the essence of the Agricultural Revolution…”
- “As far as we can tell from a…”
- “So, monotheism explains order, but is mystified by…”
- “Happiness does not really depend on objective conditions…”
- “Is there anything more dangerous than dissatisfied and…”
- “Nothing captures the biological argument better than the…”
- “Voltaire said about God that ‘there is no…”
- “Large numbers of strangers can cooperate successfully by…”
- “There are no gods, no nations, no money…”
- “Each year the US population spends more money…”
- “We study history not to know the future…”
- “Evolution has made Homo sapiens, like other social…”
- “A meaningful life can be extremely satisfying even…”
- “In order to change an existing imagined order…”
- “One of history’s fews iron laws is that…”
- “Hierarchies serve an important function. They enable complete…”
- “Domesticated chickens and cattle may well be an…”
- “Two Catholics who have never met can nevertheless…”
- “Tolerance is not a Sapiens trademark. In modern…”
- “Hunter-gatherers spent their time in more stimulating and…”
- “Romanticism, which encourages variety, meshes perfectly with consumerism…”
- “According to the science of biology, people were…”
- “Our language evolved as a way of gossiping…”
- “In contrast, humankind ascended to the top so…”
- “The most common theory points to the fact…”
- “Another theory explains that masculine dominance results not…”
- “Our DNA still thinks we are in the…”
- “The Scientific Revolution has not been a revolution…”
From Animals into Gods: A Brief History of Humankind
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