7 Quotes from The Book ‘Sapiens’ That Will Change How You See the World

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Khushi Arora
Feb 03, 2025

1.

“Happiness does not really depend on objective conditions of wealth, health, or even community. Rather, it depends on the correlation between objective conditions and subjective expectations.”

2.

“Money is the most universal and most efficient system of mutual trust ever devised.”

3.

“One of history’s few iron laws is that luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations.”

4.

“There are no gods, no nations, no money, and no human rights, except in our collective imagination.”

5.

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

6.

“Truth and power can travel together only so far. Sooner or later they go their separate ways.”

7.

“An imagined reality is not a lie. Something that everyone believes in is a reality that affects the world.”

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