Prof. Yuval Noah Harari is a historian, philosopher and best-selling author of 'Sapiens' and 'Homo Deus'. He is an Israeli historian and a tenured professor in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

1. Yuval Noah Harari
TOP 10 QUOTES

2. 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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3. Religion is a deal,
whereas spirituality is a journey.
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4. A meaningful life can be
extremely satisfying even in the
midst of hardship,
whereas a meaningless life
is a terrible ordeal no matter
how comfortable it is.
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5. Silence isn’t neutrality;
it is supporting the status-quo.
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6. In a world in which everything is interconnected, the
supreme moral imperative becomes
the imperative to know.
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7. Consistency is the playground of dull minds.
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8. Humans were always far better
at inventing tools
than using them wisely.
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9. If Kindle is upgraded with face recognition and
biometric sensors, it can know what made you laugh,
what made you sad and what made you angry.
Soon, books will read you while you are reading them.
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10. The greatest crimes in modern history
resulted not just from hatred and greed,
but even more so from ignorance and indifference.
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11. To attain real happiness,
humans need to slow down the pursuit
of pleasant sensations,
not accelerate it.
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