Yuval Noah Harari
Yuval Noah Harari is an Israeli public intellectual and historian with a doctorate from Oxford. He specializes in medieval and military history, but made his name as the author of the most celebrated macrohistorical book of the 21st century, “Sapiens.” Its sequel, “Homo Deus,” is a speculative analysis of the future and “21 Lessons for the 21st Century,” a loose collection of essays about the present.
Books by Yuval Noah Harari
Quotes by Yuval Noah Harari
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“You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.”
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“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.”
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“Consistency is the playground of dull minds.”
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“One of history’s few iron laws is that luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations.”
