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Single Idea 18318
[filed under theme 29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 2. Immortality / d. Heaven
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Full Idea
If there is a strong instinct for slandering, disparaging and accusing life within us, then we revenge ourselves on life by means of the phantasmagoria of 'another', a 'better' life.
Gist of Idea
People who disparage actual life avenge themselves by imagining a better one
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Twilight of the Idols [1889], 2.6)
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Twilight of the Idols and The Anti-Christ', ed/tr. Hollingdale,R.J. [Penguin 1972], p.39
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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