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Yuval Noah Harari

Nascido: February 24, 1976 – Kiryat Ata, Israel

Yuval Noah Harari is an Israeli historian and philosopher renowned for his explorations of human history, technology, and the future. His bestselling books—including Sapiens, Homo Deus, and 21 Lessons for the 21st Century—have sold tens of millions of copies worldwide in dozens of languages, establishing him as a leading public intellectual on global challenges.

Biografia e Jornada do Autor

Yuval Noah Harari, born in Israel in 1976 to Shlomo and Pnina Harari, demonstrated intellectual promise from a young age, teaching himself to read at three and later studying in classes for gifted children. Raised in a secular Jewish family of Bucovinian and Polish descent, his early curiosity led him to pursue studies in history and international relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Harari deferred his military service, motivated by academic ambition, and eventually completed his D.Phil. at the University of Oxford under historian Steven J. Gunn, where encountering works like Jared Diamond’s “Guns, Germs, and Steel” profoundly shaped his approach to macro-history.

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You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven
-Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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How do you cause people to believe in an imagined order such as Christianity, democracy or capitalism? First, you never admit that the order is imagined
-Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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Culture tends to argue that it forbids only that which is unnatural. But from a biological perspective, nothing is unnatural. Whatever is possible is by definition also natural
-Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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Money, social status, plastic surgery, beautiful houses, powerful positions – none of these will bring you happiness. Lasting happiness comes only from things like deep relationships, doing something meaningful, and connecting to your deeper self
-Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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Humans certainly have a will – but it isn’t free. You cannot decide what desires you have
-21 Lessons for the 21st Century
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Humans control the world because we are the only animal that can cooperate flexibly in large numbers
-TED Talk: Why Humans Run the World
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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
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When we break down our prison walls and run towards freedom, we are in fact running into the more spacious exercise yard of a bigger prison
-Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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The vast majority of human communication – whether in the form of emails, phone calls or newspaper columns – is gossip. It comes so naturally to us that it seems as if our language evolved for this very purpose
-Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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Giving up the nomadic lifestyle enabled women to have a child every year
-Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

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Vozes da Comunidade

"Yuval Noah Harari is a brilliant popularizer: a ruthless synthesizer; a master storyteller and an entertainer constantly enlivening his tale"

The Guardian

"Yuval Noah Harari tackles the biggest questions of history and of the modern world"

Jared Diamond

"Harari is known for his bestsellers Sapiens, Homo Deus, and 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, which blend history, philosophy, and futurism"

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"Yuval Noah Harari is an Israeli public intellectual, historian, and professor known for his popular science books"

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New York Times

"Harari explores humanity’s past and future, probing the impact of science and technology on civilization"

Financial Times

"Yuval Noah Harari has become internationally renowned for his sweeping, provocative explorations of the human story"

The New York Times

"Yuval Noah Harari is a professor in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is an Israeli professor"

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