Kishore Kumar

“The truly unique feature of our language is not its ability to transmit information about men and lions. Rather, it’s the ability to transmit information about things that do not exist at all. As far as we know, only Sapiens can talk about entire kinds of entities that they have never seen, touched or smelled. Legends, myths, gods and religions appeared for the first time with the Cognitive Revolution. Many animals and human species could previously say, ‘Careful! A lion!’ Thanks to the Cognitive Revolution, Homo sapiens acquired the ability to say, ‘The lion is the guardian spirit of our tribe.’ This ability to speak about fictions is the most unique feature of Sapiens language.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“I was coming, so that i could tell you all this, as if time had stopped for me, as if a certain sensation, a certain feeling were going to remain with me forever from this time forward, as if a single minute would continue for a whole eternity, and all life would come to halt for me …”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“The earth of a hundred millennia ago was walked by at least six different species of man. Its our current exclusivity, not that multi-species past, that is peculiar and perhaps incriminating. As we will shortly see, we Sapiens have good reasons to repress the memory of our siblings.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“Such a love, Nastenka, at certain moments can make the heart go cold and make one miserable.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Beyaz Geceler - Uysal Kız