

“How do you cause people to believe in an imagined order such as Christianity, democracy or capitalism? First, you never admit that the order is imagined.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

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

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

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
― The Alchemist
― The Alchemist

“This is the best reason to learn history: not in order to predict the future, but to free yourself of the past and imagine alternative destinies. Of course this is not total freedom – we cannot avoid being shaped by the past. But some freedom is better than none.”
― Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
― Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
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