2. All sufferings do not come from bad luck, social injustice or the willfulness of the gods, but from everyone's own thinking mode. -"A Brief History of Humanity"
Birds can fly because they have wings, not because they have any "right to fly". -"A Brief History of Humanity"
4. History is never just. -"A Brief History of Humanity"
The truly unique function of human language is that it can convey the information of things that don't exist at all. -"A Brief History of Humanity"
6. The iron law of history is that what seems inevitable afterwards is always not obvious at that time. -"A Brief History of Humanity"
7. Even irreconcilable Christians and Muslims can reach the same belief in the monetary system. The reason is that the focus of religious belief is self-belief, while the focus of money belief is' other people's belief'. -"A Brief History of Humanity"
8. Pain comes from desire; To be free from pain, we must let go of our desires; To let go of your desires, you must train your mind and experience the essence of things. -"A Brief History of Humanity"
9. History only tells us what very few people are doing, and most people's lives are constantly carrying water to plow the fields. -"A Brief History of Humanity"
10. History begins when human beings create gods and ends when human beings become gods. -"A Brief History of Humanity"
1 1. Compared with language, law, culture, religion and social customs, money is more open. Of all the belief systems created by human beings, only money can cross almost all cultural gaps, and there will be no discrimination because of religion, gender, race, age or sexual orientation. Thanks to the money system, people can work together even if they don't know each other's personalities. -"A Brief History of Humanity"
12, class has its important role. With class, strangers can know how to treat each other without wasting time and energy to really understand each other. -"A Brief History of Humanity"
13, the basis of evolution is difference, not equality. -"A Brief History of Humanity"
14. As human beings, it is impossible for us to break away from the order constructed by imagination. Every time we think that we have broken the high wall of the prison and moved towards the front of freedom, in fact, we just went to another bigger prison and slightly expanded our activities. -"A Brief History of Humanity"
By definition, everything is possible and natural. Anything that may happen is natural. -"A Brief History of Humanity"
16, any meaning we give to life is actually just an illusion. -"A Brief History of Humanity"
17. The reason why we study history is not to know the future, but to broaden our horizons. Understanding that the present is not natural or inevitable. The possibility of the future is far beyond our imagination. -"A Brief History of Humanity"
18, history has repeatedly shown us that many things that we thought were inevitable often failed to come true because of unforeseen obstacles, while some unimaginable plots eventually became facts. -"A Brief History of Humanity"
19. No money, no trust. -"A Brief History of Humanity"
The fact is that human subjective feelings have no substance or meaning. Subjective feeling is just a kind of electro-optical Shi Huo fluctuation, which changes all the time, just like waves. Whether you feel happy or unhappy, whether life is meaningful or not, it is only a momentary fluctuation. If we pay too much attention to these internal fluctuations, we will become too obsessed, and our hearts will be restless and dissatisfied. -"A Brief History of Humanity"
2 1. The order constructed by imagination shapes our desires. -"A Brief History of Humanity"
22. Almost from birth to death, human beings are surrounded by various fictional stories and concepts, which make human beings think in a certain way and act according to certain standards. -"A Brief History of Humanity"
23. Whether it is a modern country, a medieval church, an ancient city or an ancient tribe, the basis of any large-scale human cooperation lies in some fictional stories that only exist in the collective imagination. -"A Brief History of Humanity"
24. Happiness is neither a subjective pleasure nor a meaningful life. It is to let go of the pursuit of subjective feelings. -"A Brief History of Humanity"
25. The truly unique function of human language is gossip, that is, to express things that do not exist (fictional stories), so that human beings can establish a common imaginary reality, that is, a common belief, so as to carry out large-scale unity and cooperation, which is the core of the power given to human beings by the cognitive revolution. -"A Brief History of Humanity"
26. Adam Smith clearly pointed out that the foundation of all human wealth lies in the selfish psychology of hoping to increase personal profits. This can be said to be the most revolutionary concept in human history, and it is not only from the economic point of view, but also from the moral and political point of view. What he is actually telling us is that greed is good. When we let ourselves live well, we will not only benefit ourselves, but also benefit others. Egoism is altruism. -"A Brief History of Humanity"
27. When the dams built by society, religion and country are washed away by the infiltration of money, the world will become a huge and ruthless market. -"A Brief History of Humanity"
28. It is hard for most people to accept that their life order is just a fictional imagination, but the fact is that we have been in this imagination since birth, and even our desires are deeply influenced by it. As a result, personal desire has become the most powerful guardian of fictional order. -"A Brief History of Humanity"
If we know how many species we have killed, we will be more active in protecting those that are still alive. -"A Brief History of Humanity"
He has the power of God, but he is irresponsible and insatiable, and he doesn't even know what he wants. The world is sinister, and it really is. -"A Brief History of Humanity"