Quotes

“Just 6 million years ago, a single female ape had two daughters. One became the ancestor of all chimpanzees, the other is our own grandmother.”
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“When humans domesticated fire, they gained control of an obedient and potentially limitless force.”
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“One of history's few iron laws is that luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations. Once people get used to a certain luxury, they take it for granted. Then they begin to count on it. Finally, they reach a point where they can't live without it.”
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“Money... is most universal and most efficient system of mutual trust ever devised.”
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“Money is not coins and bank notes. Money is anything that people... use... to represent... value... for... exchanging goods and services.”
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Books by Yuval Noah Harari in order

Books by Yuval Noah Harari in the order they were published, from Large Human History (2000) to Unstoppable Us, Volume 2 (2024).

Authors readers of Yuval Noah Harari often like, from our AI-written notes

Jared DiamondWrites big-picture histories of human societies, such as Guns, Germs, and Steel, that also connect geography, biology and long-term change.
Ian MorrisHistorian of long-term social development, author of Why the West Rules—For Now, who compares societies across thousands of years.
Steven PinkerArgues for long-term human progress using data, in books like Enlightenment Now, and has a similar general-audience style.
Max TegmarkPhysicist who writes about the future of artificial intelligence and its effects on humanity, in Life 3.0.
Shoshana ZuboffAnalyzes how digital companies collect and use personal data, in The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, a useful companion to Homo Deus and Nexus.
Daniel KahnemanExplores how human judgment works and where it goes wrong, in Thinking, Fast and Slow, which suits readers interested in the psychology behind Harari's arguments about human decisions.