You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven. - Yuval Noah Harari

Christians slaughtered Christians by the millions to defend slightly different interpretations of the religion of love and compassion.

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.

In such a world, the last thing a teacher needs to give her pupils is more information. They already have far too much of it. Instead, people need the ability to make sense of information, to tell the difference between what is important and what is unimportant, and above all to combine many bits of information into a broad picture of the world.