Bobby

“Knowledge that does not change behavior is useless. But knowledge that changes behavior quickly loses its relevance.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow

“Fictions enable us to cooperate better. The price we pay is that the same fictions also determine the goals of our cooperation.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow

“Modernity is a surprisingly simple deal. The entire contract can be summarized in a single phrase: humans agree to give up meaning in exchange for power.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow

“Liberals, communists and followers of other modern creeds dislike describing their own system as a ‘religion’, because they identify religion with superstitions and supernatural powers. If you tell communists or liberals that they are religious, they think you accuse them of blindly believing in groundless pipe dreams. In fact, it means only that they believe in some system of moral laws that wasn’t invented by humans, but which humans must nevertheless obey.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow