Andrew

“As Nietzsche put it, if you have a why to live, you can bear almost any how.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“Yet it is an iron rule of history that every imagined hierarchy disavows its fictional origins and claims to be natural and inevitable.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“Like evolution, history disregards the happiness of individual organisms. And individual humans, for their part, are usually far too ignorant and weak to influence the course of history to their own advantage.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“This approach is sometimes called memetics. It assumes that, just as organic evolution is based on the replication of organic information units called ‘genes’, so cultural evolution is based on the replication of cultural information units called ‘memes’.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind