1810 quotes by israeli authors for you to enjoy

Modernity is a deal. The entire contract can be summarised in a single phrase: humans agree to give up meaning in exchange for power. Yuval Noah Harari

Power Single Phrase Entire Give Exchange Deal Contract Up Modernity Meaning Agree Humans

Our bodies and minds evolved and were adapted for hundreds of thousands of years for tasks like climbing a tree and picking apples, or hunting rabbits, or looking for mushrooms in the forest. They were not adapted to the very gruelling work that is involved in field work - ploughing, harvesting, bringing water, digging weeds - things like that. Yuval Noah Harari

Work Water Looking Field Tree Mushrooms Digging Our Minds Hundreds Hundreds Of Thousands Harvesting Evolved Hunting Thousands Thousands Of Years Weeds Picking Like Involved Climbing Were Years Forest Very Tasks Rabbits Bodies Apples Things Bringing Adapted

The truly unique trait of 'Sapiens' is our ability to create and believe fiction. All other animals use their communication system to describe reality. We use our communication system to create new realities. Of course, not all fictions are shared by all humans, but at least one has become universal in our world, and this is money. Yuval Noah Harari

Reality Communication World Money Animals Become Believe Other Our Our World System At Least One Ability Shared New Course Least Truly Trait Fiction Fictions Realities Create Use Sapiens Unique Describe Universal Humans

Intelligence is the ability to solve problems, and consciousness is the ability to feel things and have subjective experiences. Yuval Noah Harari

Intelligence Problems Solve Ability Feel Subjective Experiences Things Consciousness

When the first humans reached Australia about 45,000 years ago, they quickly drove to extinction 90% of its large animals. This was the first significant impact that Homo sapiens had on the planet's ecosystem. It was not the last. Yuval Noah Harari

Fundamentally, mankind was unimportant in the ecological system. Then, in one fell swoop, an evolutionary blink of an eye, the human race is transformed from something unimportant to the most important thing in the world. Yuval Noah Harari

World Important System Evolutionary Eye Something Ecological Most Fell Most Important Thing Blink Important Thing Human The Most Important Transformed Race Mankind Then Unimportant Human Race Thing Fundamentally

Ignorance is not too dangerous. If you combine it with power, then this is a toxic mix. Yuval Noah Harari

You Ignorance Dangerous Power Too Combine Toxic Mix Then

If you take 10,000 chimpanzees and cram them together into Wembley Stadium or the Houses of Parliament, you will get chaos. But if you take 10,000 people who have never met before, they can co-operate and create amazing things. Yuval Noah Harari

The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs. A. B. Yehoshua

You Revenge Desperate Suicide Punishing Possibility Weapon Taking Along Terrorist His Mixing Blood Left Anyone Victims Even Bombing

Israel is too attached to America, too influenced by America. It should be connected to Europe. America is based on mythology - the free man, the individual, the open frontier. Europe is more conscious of history. Take Britain and Shakespeare. You shape your identity through history. A. B. Yehoshua

History You Man Free Too Shakespeare More Attached Free Man Individual Through Shape Take Open Mythology Identity Israel America Frontier Influenced Should Your Europe Connected Based Conscious Britain

One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more. A. B. Yehoshua

Dreams Conflict Stupid Our East More Instead Between Exclusion West Contributing Creating Bridge Bridges Desire

I am a serious reader, and I read slowly. A. B. Yehoshua

Slowly Read Reader Am Serious

It's not what the rabbis say that defines Jewishness but what we Israelis do every day - our actions and our values. A. B. Yehoshua

Day Every Day Values Every Our Say Defines Israelis Actions

I was proud my father spoke Arabic fluently - his father sent him to learn Arabic from a sheikh - and we had Arab friends. His task of understanding the Arabs - not only politics but poetry - was very important; he took it as a vocation. A. B. Yehoshua

I come from two parts of the oriental community - Jerusalemite and North African Jews. A. B. Yehoshua

Community Jews Come Parts North African Oriental Two

Jews outside Israel live in permanent contradiction. I think they should come home. A. B. Yehoshua

Home Live Think Jews Outside Come Permanent Israel Contradiction Should

We have to rethink the two-state solution. A. B. Yehoshua

Solution Rethink

In my own view, Hamas's frustration derives from a lack of legitimization by Israel and by much of the world. It is this frustration that leads them to such destructive desperation. That's why we need to grant them status as a legitimate enemy - before we talk about an agreement or, alternatively, about a frontal war. A. B. Yehoshua

War Enemy Frustration World Desperation Before Own Destructive Status About My Own Leads Talk Israel Hamas Lack Legitimate Them Much View Grant Derives Agreement Why Need

Let us not forget: The Palestinians in Gaza are our permanent neighbors, and we are theirs. A. B. Yehoshua

Our Gaza Neighbors Permanent Forget Us Let Us Palestinians

In a time of crisis, there is rational tendency to turn to the writer. A. B. Yehoshua

Time Crisis Rational Tendency Writer Turn

For 50 years - that is, for most of my adult life - I worked tirelessly for the two-state solution in the face of countless frustrations, both on the part of the Israeli governments and the Palestinian Authority. A. B. Yehoshua

Life Face Solution Both Adult Adult Life Part Countless Most Israeli Years Governments Authority Tirelessly Frustrations Worked Palestinian

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