Samanta

“When a thousand people believe some made-up story for one month, that’s fake news. When a billion people believe it for a thousand years, that’s a religion, and we are admonished not to call it “fake news” in order not to hurt the feelings of the faithful (or incur their wrath). Note, however, that I am not denying the effectiveness or potential benevolence of religion. Just the opposite. For better or worse, fiction is among the most effective tools in humanity’s tool kit. By bringing people together, religious creeds make large-scale human cooperation possible. They inspire people to build hospitals, schools, and bridges in addition to armies and prisons. Adam and Eve never existed, but Chartres Cathedral is still beautiful.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

“Most days I am a museum of things I want to forget.”
― E.E. Scott

“Individual humans know embarrassingly little about the world, and as history has progressed, they have come to know less and less. A hunter-gatherer in the Stone Age knew how to make her own clothes, how to start a fire, how to hunt rabbits, and how to escape lions. We think we know far more today, but as individuals, we actually know far less. We rely on the expertise of others for almost all our needs.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

“Reikia perspėti bites, kad tas, kuris ateis pas jas, jau miręs. Jeigu nespėsiu, jis išsives jas su savimi. Pabeldžiau į avilį ir pasakiau tai, ką reikėjo:
– Bitės, bitelės. Gaspadorius mirė. Pasibudinkit.”
― Saulius Tomas Kondrotas, Žalčio žvilgsnis