“happiness does not really depend on objective conditions of either wealth, health or even community. Rather, it depends on the correlation between objective conditions and subjective expectations.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“Our language evolved as a way of gossiping.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“how long can we maintain the wall separating the department of biology from the departments of law and political science?”
― 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
“Poverty, sickness, wars, famines old age and death itself were not the inevitable fate of humankind. They were simply the fruits of our ignorance.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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Each year we look at our to-be-read shelves and choose which countries of the world we want to travel through. Some of our members map their journeys ...more
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