Yuval Noah Harari Quotes

Yuval Noah Harari is an Israeli historian, philosopher and writer who was born in 1976. His works include “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind” (2014), “Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow” (2016), and “21 Lessons for the 21st Century” (2018).

This is a collection of quotes by Yuval Noah Harari.

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Culture tends to argue that it forbids only that which is unnatural. But from a biological perspective, nothing is unnatural. Whatever is possible is by definition also natural. A truly unnatural behaviour, one that goes against the laws of nature, simply cannot exist, so it would need no prohibition.
Yuval Noah Harari

Domesticated chickens and cattle may well be an evolutionary success story, but they are also among the most miserable creatures that ever lived. The domestication of animals was founded on a series of brutal practices that only became crueller with the passing of the centuries.
Yuval Noah Harari
Source: A Brief History of Humankind

Happiness does not really depend on objective conditions of either wealth, health or even community. Rather, it depends on the correlation between objective conditions and subjective expectations.
Yuval Noah Harari
Source: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Money is the most universal and most efficient system of mutual trust ever devised.
Yuval Noah Harari
Source: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Since the beginning of the computer age, there has been immense development in computer intelligence but exactly zero development in computer consciousness.
Yuval Noah Harari

The domesticated chicken is probably the most widespread bird in the annals of planet Earth. If you measure success in terms of numbers, chickens, cows and pigs are the most successful animals ever.
Yuval Noah Harari

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

We did not domesticate wheat. It domesticated us.
Yuval Noah Harari
Source: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

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