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21 Lessons for the 21st Century

Book by Yuval Noah Harari · 7 quotes · Suffering, Yuval Noah Harari, Learning

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“A história liberal diz-me que procure a liberdade para me exprimir e para me realizar. Mas tanto o ‘eu’ como a liberdade são quimeras mitológicas saídas de contos de fadas dos tempos antigos. O liberalismo tem uma noção particularmente confusa de ‘livre-arbítrio’. Os seres humanos, evidentemente, têm vontade, têm desejos e, por vezes, são livres de cumprir esses desejos. Se por ‘livre-arbítrio’ entendermos a liberdade de fazer o que se deseja, então, sim, os seres humanos têm livre-arbítrio. Mas se ‘livre-arbítrio’ significar a liberdade de escolher aquilo que se deseja, então, não, os seres humanos não têm livre-arbítrio.”

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“...Bu engellenemez gelişim yoluna giren ülkeler barış ve refahtan paylarını daha kısa sürede alacak. Kaçınılmaz olana direnen ülkelerse sonunda doğru yolu bulup sınırlarını açana, toplumlarını, siyasetlerini ve piyasalarını özgürleştirene dek cezalarını çekecek. Zaman alabilir ama nihayetinde Kuzey Kore, Irak ve El Salvador da Danimarka ya da Iowa'ya benzeyecek.”

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“As we come to make the most important decisions in the history of life, I personally would trust more in those who admit ignorance than in those who claim infallibility. If you want your religion, ideology or world view to lead the world, my first question to you is: ‘What was the biggest mistake your religion, ideology or world view committed? What did it get wrong?’ If you cannot come up with something serious, I for one would not trust you.”

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“People fear that being trapped inside a box, they will miss out on all the wonders of the world. As long as Neo is stuck inside the matrix, and Truman is stuck inside the TV studio, they will never visit Fiji, or Paris, or Machu Picchu. But in truth, everything you will ever experience in life is within your own body and your own mind. Breaking out of the matrix or travelling to Fiji won’t make any difference. It’s not that somewhere in your mind there is an iron chest with a big red warning sign ‘Open only in Fiji!’ and when you finally travel to the South Pacific you get to open the chest, and out come all kinds of special emotions and feelings that you can have only in Fiji. And if you never visit Fiji in your life, then you missed these special feelings for ever. No. Whatever you can feel in Fiji, you can feel anywhere in the world; even inside the matrix.”

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