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Quotes from The Collapse of Truth — Yuval Noah Harari

born 1976 Israel

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Every large scale human system is based on... mythology and bureaucracy.

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We could be in a situation when the richest person... is not a human being.

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In dictatorships there is no... self-correcting mechanism.

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Unless we... construct institutions that invest in truth, we'll be flooded by fiction.., illusion.., delusion and junk information.

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The whole of science... is a self-correcting mechanism. ...[S]cientific journals publish ...corrections to previous publications.., to past mistakes or past lacuna.

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[T]here is no mechanism to correct the text of the Bible.

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Traditional religions... were characterized by claiming to be infallible, that their holy book, their sacred tradition never makes any mistake.., therefore there is no mechanism... to identify and correct mistakes...factual, also moral mistakes.

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Nationalism is not about hating foreigners and wanting to kill the others. It's about loving our compatriots... and... paying taxes honestly...

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Yuval Noah Harari (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.