SAPIENS: THE BRIEF HISTORY OF HUMANKIND (SUMMARY)

MEN fear death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.

In Moulmein, in lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people–the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me.

In1930,a young American historian and philosopher, Will Durant, stepped on to the shores of India for the first time.

The question raised by the title of this book cannot have a simple and definite
answer.

THE FOLLOWING SELECTIONS—“What Makes People Unhappy?” “Is Happiness
Still Possible?” “Zest,” “Work,” and “The Happy Man”—are taken from just
a few of the many essays in Conquest of Happiness.

To recover our sense of geography, we first must fix the moment in recent history when we
most profoundly lost it, explain why we lost it, and elucidate how that affected our assumptions
about the world.