Yuval Noah Harari

War spreads ideas, technologies and people far more quickly than commerce.

Homo sapiens long preferred to view itself as set apart from animals, an orphan bereft of family, lacking siblings or cousins, and most importantly, without parents.

witnessed the invention

tracking a herd of bison

You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven

He was fully liable,

subconsciously still inhabit

Consistency is the playground of dull minds

If tensions, conflicts and irresolvable dilemmas are the spice of every culture, a human being who belongs to any particular culture must hold contradictory beliefs and be riven by incompatible values. It’s such an essential feature of any culture that it even has a name: cognitive dissonance. Cognitive dissonance is often considered a failure of the human psyche. In fact, it is a vital asset

Religion can thus be defined as a system of human norms and values that is founded on a belief in a superhuman order. This involves two distinct criteria