“Stand aside, and try not to catch fire if I shed sparks of genius.”
― The Republic of Thieves
― The Republic of Thieves
“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
“You want to change the world, Shallan. That’s well and good. But be careful. The world predates you. She has seniority.”
― Oathbringer
― Oathbringer
“You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“History is something that very few people have been doing while everyone else was ploughing fields and carrying water buckets.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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