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“One of the greatest fictions of all is to deny the complexity of the world and think in absolute terms:”
― Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

“Philosophers are very patient people, but engineers are far less patient, and investors are the least patient of all.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

“No tree can grow to Heaven,” adds the ever-terrifying Carl Gustav Jung, psychoanalyst extraordinaire, “unless its roots reach down to Hell.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

“First, if you want reliable information, pay good money for it. If you get your news for free, you might well be the product.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

“If you are really in love with someone, you never worry about the meaning of life.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

“Humans vote with their feet.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

“When a thousand people believe some made-up story for a month - that's fake news. When a billion people believe it for a thousand years - that's religion, and we are admonished to call it fake news in oder not to for the feelings of the faithful.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

“God has no religion.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“The first thing you need to know about yourself is that you are not a story.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

“If you cannot afford to waste time, you will never find the truth.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

“The danger is that if we invest too much in developing AI and too little in developing human consciousness, the very sophisticated artificial intelligence of computers might only serve to empower the natural stupidity of humans.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

“Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Religion is like a pair of shoes.....Find one that fits for you, but don't make me wear your shoes.”
― George Carlin

“Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion.”
― Jon Stewart

“Nothing is inherently beautiful, sacred, or sexy; human feelings make it so.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

“The universe just does not work like a story.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

“Change Is the Only Constant”
― Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

“Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.”
― Isaac Asimov

“Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.”
― Alan Wilson Watts

“Religion is a deal, whereas spirituality is a journey”
― Yuval Noah Harari, ההיסטוריה של המחר

“Soon, books will read you while you are reading them.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow

“Terrorists are like a fly that tries to destroy a china shop. The fly is so weak that it cannot budge even a single teacup. So it finds a bull, gets inside its ear and starts buzzing. The bull goes wild with fear and anger, and destroys the china shop. (p.21)”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow

“You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“Consistency is the playground of dull minds.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“History is something that very few people have been doing while everyone else was ploughing fields and carrying water buckets.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“Biology enables, Culture forbids.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“We did not domesticate wheat. It domesticated us.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“This is the essence of the Agricultural Revolution: the ability to keep more people alive under worse conditions.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“So, monotheism explains order, but is mystified by evil. Dualism explains evil, but is puzzled by order. There is one logical way of solving the riddle: to argue that there is a single omnipotent God who created the entire universe – and He’s evil. But nobody in history has had the stomach for such a belief.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind