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Single Idea 18288
[filed under theme 29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 2. Immortality / d. Heaven
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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
The
13 ideas
with the same theme
[good place where good souls go as a reward]:
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Is the supreme reward for virtue to be drunk for eternity?
[Plato]
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7908
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At the end of a saint, he is not located in space, but just ceases to be disturbed
[Ashvaghosha]
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6820
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The righteous shall dwell on couches in gardens, wedded to dark-eyed houris
[Mohammed]
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6812
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Heaven will be reclining on couches, eating fruit, attended by virgins
[Mohammed]
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4412
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Those in bliss have their happiness increased by seeing the damned punished
[Aquinas]
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7203
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In heaven all the interesting men are missing
[Nietzsche]
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18318
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People who disparage actual life avenge themselves by imagining a better one
[Nietzsche]
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18288
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Heaven was invented by the sick and the dying
[Nietzsche]
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18306
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We don't want heaven; now that we are men, we want the kingdom of earth
[Nietzsche]
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21520
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That our heaven is a dull place reflects the misery of excessive work in life
[Russell]
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23063
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The first man obviously found paradise unendurable
[Cioran]
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20699
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Paradise would not contain some virtues, such as courage
[Davies,B]
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7356
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Pious Jews saw heaven as a vast library
[Johnson,P]
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