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Ideas for 'Theaetetus', 'Thus Spake Zarathustra' and 'Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy'

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29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 2. Immortality / d. Heaven

18306	We don't want heaven; now that we are men, we want the kingdom of earth [Nietzsche]
	Full Idea: We certainly do not want to enter into the kingdom of heaven: we have become men, so we want the kingdom of earth.
	From: Friedrich Nietzsche (Thus Spake Zarathustra [1884], 4.18.2)

18288	Heaven was invented by the sick and the dying [Nietzsche]
	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.
	From: Friedrich Nietzsche (Thus Spake Zarathustra [1884], 1.04)

29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 3. Problem of Evil / a. Problem of Evil

2057	There must always be some force of evil ranged against good [Plato]
	Full Idea: The elimination of evil is impossible, Theodorus; there must always be some force ranged against good.
	From: Plato (Theaetetus [c.368 BCE], 176a)