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Single Idea 18288

[catalogued under 29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 2. Immortality / d. Heaven]

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 Reference

Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Thus Spake Zarathustra', ed/tr. Hollingdale,R.J. [Penguin 1969], p.60