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“They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out.”

― C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle

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"For me, it is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."

— Carl Sagan

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I read the narnia series many times as a kid and this one stuck with me, I didn't prompt for it.

I have no real way to demonstrate that I'm telling the truth, but I am ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Sorry for the assumption. For what it's worth, I read one of Sagan's books last year, but pulled the quote from Goodreads :P
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