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Yuval Noah Harari

born 1976

Yuval Noah Harari was an Israeli historian and author known for his best-selling books like "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" and "Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow." He is a professor in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is recognized for his thought-provoking insights on the past, present, and future of humanity.

  1. The most important thing to know about yourself is what you pay attention to.

    Yuval Noah HarariSapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, 2014
    #attention#self-awareness#focus

  2. Money is the probably the most successful story ever told. It has no objective value... but then you have these master storytellers: the big bankers, the finance ministers... and they come, and they tell a very convincing story.

    Yuval Noah HarariSapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, p. 184, 2011
    #money#storytelling#perception

  3. The truly unique trait of 'Sapiens' is our ability to create and believe fiction. All other animals use their communication system to describe reality. We use our communication system to create new realities. Of course, not all fictions are shared by all humans, but at least one has become universal in our world, and this is money.

    Yuval Noah HarariSapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, chapter 3, 2011
    #fiction#communication#society

  4. Censorship no longer works by hiding information from you; censorship works by flooding you with immense amounts of misinformation, of irrelevant information, of funny cat videos, until you're just unable to focus.

    Yuval Noah HarariHomo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
    #censorship#information#distraction

  5. The West is not a location, not a race, not a nationality, but a set of ideas.

    Yuval Noah HarariSapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, p. 232, 2014
    #west#ideas#identity

  6. People spend too much time on the last 24 hours and not enough time on the last 6,000 years.

    Yuval Noah Harari21 Lessons for the 21st century
    #time#history#perspective