“Unlike lying, an imagined reality is something that everyone believes in, and as long as this communal belief persists, the imagined reality exerts force in the world.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“Romanticism tells us that in order to make the most of our human potential we must have as many different experiences as we can.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“The secret was probably the appearance of fiction. Large numbers of strangers can cooperate successfully by believing in common myths. Any”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“Among all the world’s large creatures, the only survivors of the human flood will be humans themselves, and the farmyard animals that serve as galley slaves in Noah’s Ark.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“In such a band, a woman could have sex and form intimate bonds with several men (and women) simultaneously, and all of the band’s adults cooperated in parenting its children.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Madame’s 2025 Year in Books
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