“in order to change an existing imagined order, we must first believe in an alternative imagined order.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“So, monotheism explains order, but is mystified by evil. Dualism explains evil, but is puzzled by order. There is one logical way of solving the riddle: to argue that there is a single omnipotent God who created the entire universe – and He’s evil. But nobody in history has had the stomach for such a belief.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“Evolution has made Homo sapiens, like other social mammals, a xenophobic creature. Sapiens instinctively divide humanity into two parts, ‘we’ and ‘they’.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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