Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

by Yuval Noah Harari

This is the essence of the Agricultural Revolution: the ability to keep more people alive under worse conditions.

History is something that very few people have been doing while everyone else was ploughing fields and carrying water buckets.

Romanticism tells us that in order to make the most of our human potential we must have as many different experiences as we can.

‘Biology enables, culture forbids.’

Consistency is the playground of dull minds.

Syncretism might, in fact, be the single great world religion.

They created the world as we know it, including the ideologies we use in order to judge them.