Now. I’ve learned to adjust my expectations to reality better than when I was 20 or 10.
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Noah Harari
Israeli historian and philosopher
Israel · b. 1976
Arts and letters
Born in Israel, Harari, 45, gained his PhD at the University of Oxford. His bestselling books are Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind; Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow; 21 Lessons for the 21st Century; and Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 1. Next week he publishes Sapiens: A Graphic History Volume 2 – The Pillars of Civilization. He lives with his husband near Tel Aviv, and lectures in history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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I would like to come out at 16 or 17, and not 21.
That I still don’t understand life. When I was young, I thought at some point I would find somebody who does. I am 45, and there is a good chance that I’ll never meet somebody like that.
I was almost run over by a bus when I was 13. And in 1991, in the Gulf war, an Iraqi missile hit close to my house.
On a personal level, the friend who is a single mum raising two kids by herself during this Covid era. She is a real hero. If a historical personality, I choose Mikhail Gorbachev, who probably saved the world from world war three.
When I was 16, at the beginning of the summer vacation, I worked in a factory that made industrial valves and I was a much worse industrial valve producer than historian.
When my dog died a couple of years ago. We were in Greece on vacation and a friend was watching her at home, and she was bitten by a snake. We rushed home, but we were too late by a few hours.
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