Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

by Yuval Noah Harari

Telling effective stories is not easy. The difficulty lies not in telling the story, but in convincing everyone else to believe it.

A good rule of thumb is ‘Biology enables, culture forbids.’

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.