“It's a little bit like the rich imposing poverty on the poor and then asking to be loved because of it.”

—  Carl Sagan

The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God (2006)
Context: In many myths, the one possibility the gods are most anxious about is that humans will discover some secret of immortality or even... attempt to stride the high heavens.... It's a little bit like the rich imposing poverty on the poor and then asking to be loved because of it.

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