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Full Idea
It was the sick and dying who despised the body and the earth and invented the things of heaven and the redeeming drops of blood.
Gist of Idea
Heaven was invented by the sick and the dying
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Thus Spake Zarathustra [1884], 1.04)
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Thus Spake Zarathustra', ed/tr. Hollingdale,R.J. [Penguin 1969], p.60